Happy 4/15.

I'll be frank like Anne, I did not see this one coming: a ranking contender for World's Most Pointless State Agency slaps down a request from a private company, a brilliant Web 1.9 one at that, and we here on the left side of Mutiny Baby agree wholeheartedly with The Acronym's decision? What are the odds?  read more »

Whether you enjoyed I Am Legend or not, check out the alternate ending; it sets the "main" "zombie" character (billed as Alpha Male) as the protagonist's foil and moral equal instead of a mere nemesis. Though the new ending shows more consistent character logic and sets up themes like "love vs. hubris" instead of just "loneliness is sad," this is relevant to this blog how? As follows:  read more »

Happy golden birthday to a helpless circle and line combination.

Maybe "Her hair conquered the pigeon dung?" I bet somebody somewhere sells that on a shirt.

Booklamp.org is a burgeoning book recommendation site, like the last.fm/pandora of books. I would say it works great, but it looks like they haven't hung anything on the walls yet so here's hoping.

Their number one recommendation for a 1984 fan: the USA Patriot Act, a 98% match.

Booklamp: book recommendations PLUS cute jokes!

For sheer inspiration, Obama's video of people singing along to his speeches has nothing on McCain's.

We'll still take the Johnny Cash version, though.

W implies Barack Obama is a threat to "peace." Hilarious! The hypocrisy! Yes, but... Do you think Pakistani-Americans find truth in the suggestion that Obama might be war as usual?  read more »

Oh, it's about to get extremely random.

- Raimondo is right about Ron Paul. Many of us were wrong to varying degrees. 'Tis better to light a candle that favors state's rights over individual rights than it is to curse the darkness. 2nd in Nevada, 2nd in Louisiana, Fred's gone, Huck's broke, Rudy's a joke. Two frontrunners, one underdog. Paul is the Republican John Edwards. Wait, what?  read more »

I want to be Ezra Levant when I grow up.

The posts and video on his blog do the story justice far better than I could, so just click over there now.

First: diversions. Twins accidentally married each other. Whimsical! And needlessly tragic. Count how many times CNN assumes this looks like a job for ... legislators? While you have your fingers and toes up, tally the AJC's implications that poor merchants in poor communities would never get robbed if they just filled out some forms. On to our main event.  read more »