You’ll know you’re watching a good episode of Battlestar Galactica when you’re standing and screaming at the screen, jaw halfway to the floor, incredulous that anything so unbelievable could be put on television.
Finally- the Battlestar Galactica premiere debuted last Friday and it blew my fucking socks off. I don’t want to potentially spoil anything, so […]

Check out this amazing clip of Colbert slamming Matt Lauer and the morning news shows. There are 2 moments that I was really impressed by in this segment. First, when Stephen explains that Congressmen want to appear on the Report because it’s not only “the news”, it also “IS news”. That’s a smackdown if I’ve […]

Holy shit, this has me excited (despite the Nickelback). Waiting for the next season has me empathetic for fans of the Sopranos.
By the way, in case you don’t know, it’s the Best Show on TV. If your first instinct would be to laugh at anyone who would watch a show with a name like “Battlestar […]

Making some gratuitous use of embedded video:

Caught a week-old episode of Conan on the Tivo last night and really liked the musical guest, Brandi Carlile. I’m extremely jealous of her amazing voice, and I’ve got it bad for girls who rock, so she probably hooked me long before the music really started to sink in. […]

Here’s a youtube video I wanted to reference. Sorry, but the link will have to do until I get embedded video working. Update: Got it!

Couldn’t have said it better. Ann Coulter is an embarassment to humanity and a noxious influence on our public discourse, but she’s also miserable at convincing anyone who doesn’t already agree […]

A point made by Mickey Kaus on Monday’s instalment of Bloggingheads.tv, regarding Gore’s appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. On the show, Gore said that removing troops from Iraq at this point could worsen the situation, and that we shouldn’t set a timeline for withdrawal. Mickey sez:

I thought it was very interesting that the […]

I just got back from seeing Al Gore’s new movie about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth (check out the trailer). On the way back, my roomates and I were discussing how excellent it was; the film is enormously informative and persuasive, but it is also very entertaining, which is saying a lot when you consider […]

Parts of Deus Ex: Invisible War (the sequel to one of the best games of all time- Deus Ex) take place in cities such as Seattle and Cairo, where a recurring theme is the separation between 2 worlds- the dirty, poor and in some cases toxic slum areas, and the selective, upper-class arkologies. The player […]

Good timing! Right after my last post, I hear about this story in the Washington Post (registration required). Apparently a massive study involving over 2,000 people was just released which found no link between marijuana use lung cancer. Even among heavy users there was no increased risk, when heavy use was defined as smoking over […]

I’ve quit smoking pot for a month or so, and I thought that it might be a good topic to discuss on the blog. I find the fact that marijuana is illegal to be grotesque and totally meritless (unlike that of the Drug War in general, which I think is merely irrational and dangerously counter […]

Da Vinci Code Undermines Faith, Survey Claims
Spoiler Alert!
Can’t say I was particularly suprised by the findings reported in this MSNBC story a week or so ago. The poll indicates that British readers of the novel are twice as likely (59% to 30%) to believe its claim that Jesus may have sired a child with Mary […]