Yesterday the Facebook News Feed was moderately functional for a change, which is how I discovered the existence of the Coffee Party, which had been Facebook-fanned by several of my Facebook friends and/or stalkers and/or stalkees.
Given that I drink approximately 10 cups of coffee a day, you’d expect that I’d be favorably inclined toward a [...]

I very rarely go to the movies. Sure, I saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince out of a misguided hope that they’d depart from the source material and have Harry snog Luna, but for the most part I’d rather stay home and watch Conan the Barbarian over and over again on Netflix-on-Demand.
However, I’d [...]

Inspired, perhaps, by Quentin Tarantino’s multi-part epic Kill Bill, auteur Larry Lessig has begun work on the not-dissimilar Change Congress Chronicles.
Volume 1, “Congressman Campbell is a Friend of the Auto Industry,” chronicles Congressman John Campbell, who is a friend of the auto industry.
The film quickly establishes the character of Campbell, who spent 25 [...]

Great news, Senior Citizens! President Obama wants to give you $250!
Why? Probably so you’ll vote for him again come 2012.
There’s some sort of nominally non-tawdry reason, too.
You see, by law, Social Security payments increase each year in a manner pegged to inflation. When Rascal Scooters and Life Alerts [...]

Due to a combination of carelessness, disorganization, and ineptitude, I let my domain expire a couple of years ago.  For many dark months, it pointed at a page of useless ads that I can’t imagine anyone being willing to click on.
Recently I checked and discovered that it was about to expire, and so I entered [...]