Chromehorse
Foxconn, Slave Labour, and Your iPhone
Bisphenol A and Government Regulation
Raging Kitsch! The Best Paragraph from a
Movie
Review that I read this year.
The
Tremeloes: Silence is Golden
The
Boogaard Bogie: Brain Battering for Cash
The Eternal
Sunshine of the Prosecutorial Mind
The
Sentinelese Don't Want You
Conspiracy
of One
"Women who did not cry during their trial were automatically believed to be witches." Wisdom from the Malleus Maleficarum, 1486. One of the reasons given for the conviction of Lindy Chamberlain (famously portrayed by Meryl Streep in "A Cry in the Dark", 1988) was that she had not displayed sufficient grief at the loss of her child.
My Subsidies
Godspell
The Comedians (The
Republican Candidates for President)
Fracking
Illinois Teachers
Take Back Peter Pumpkinhead
Simony
Unethical Culture
"That's true poetry. A man who, through his dedication and ingenuity, gave the world a gift, that helped people contemplate the mysteries and marvels of the cosmos, of space, of colliding meteors and comets and collapsing stars, and even of time itself, as the universe continues to fling itself outward madly.... that this man should drink himself to death when his own universe contracted around him into a black hole of hatred and bigotry. It's too much." Bill, On Bernhard Schmidt.
"Science advances one funeral at a time." Max Planck
