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 »

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!

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 »

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 »

- Moderate, middle of the road state-despiser Dave Barry wrings out the old year and is reasonably gentle on Mike Vick. Meanwhile, Radley Balko looks at what we can look forward to in 2008.  read more »