How to take the perfect photograph? Hell if I know…
The other day I posted this shot, from Sarawub Intarot at National Geographic, on Facebook.
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Security vs privacy: RadioLab and the case for the surveillance state
We all love freedom and the Constitution. But is it really that simple? I’m a huge fan of a good debate. And by “debate” I don’t mean the sort of ginned-up scream-lie-and-spinfests we have come to associate with the term in the past few decades. No, I mean spirited, intelligent, thoughtful exchanges between parties with honest, good-faith disagreements. Lucky me, I tripped across
Read moreBeatallica, Judas Gaga and AC/BG: Saturday Video Roundup
Haven’t done these in awhile. Ah, the perverse creative juices pumping through the intertubes…. Hey, remember that time The Beatles and Metallica did that collaboration? Here’s fellow scrogue Frank B’s favorite.
Read moreShaquille O'Neal vs Scottie Pippen: the Big Aristotle has lost his mind
I love Shaquille O’Neal. Seriously. He was a great player and is a smart, very funny guy off the court. But damn, is the man delusional. Shaq got involved in a little Twitter dustup this week with another hoops luminary, former Michael Jordan sidekick Scottie Pippen. Long story short, Shaq thinks the all-time greatest Lakers five would thump the all-time
Read moreThe spirit of ecstasy
Mirror mirror: Obama is the Democratic Reagan
We love symbolic victories in the culture wars. But what is Obama doing while we’re distracted? Selling us out, just like Ronnie did. I used to argue that Ronald Reagan was playing the religious right like a wore-out banjo. Sorta. The big social issue of the day, of course, was abortion, and Ronnie did a lot of talking about how
Read moreJade Helm 15: here’s what I don’t get
By now I’m sure you know that the US is preparing to invade Texas. All kinds of self-medicating gongbats concerned sovereign citizens have dissected Washington’s nefarious scheme and they stand ready to defend The Republic from … Okay, here’s where I need some help. I’ve been studying a map of the US, and I even consulted Wikipedia. Best I can tell,
Read moreWhat bands do you miss? (It's a fastidious and precise Saturday Video Roundup, bitches.)
Sometimes bands we love break up. Or someone dies. Or … maybe they just slide from relevance. If you’re like me, there are a lot of acts who fit this description. I miss Space Team Electra so bad it hurts, for instance. REM faded away more or less gracefully, but still I long for 1984. Here are some bands and solo
Read moreConfederate PTSD: Curing the South
When I was in graduate school at Iowa State in the late 1980s I hit a period, during my second year, where a little homesickness set in. So I did something to remind myself of the place and people I was missing: I bought a Confederate flag and affixed it to my desk in the office, which I shared with
Read more318: Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden CO
Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden
Read moreIt’s time we stopped worshipping our “founding fathers”
For our founding fathers, “people” was a euphemism” that meant “rich white men.” Sadly, the same is true for many of our current leaders.
Read moreHillary breaks bad on Wall St. and the 1%, but why should we trust her (or any of the Democrats, for that matter)?
People keep telling me I have to be realistic. But step one of being a realist is acknowledging reality. I have been pretty vocal in my criticism of Barack Obama over the past seven years. I have reamed the modern day Vichy Democratic party every chance I have gotten. I have stomped on Bill Clinton and Al Gore, the architects of the
Read moreLindemann’s “Praise Abort”: Saturday Video Roundup
Oh look, Till Lindemann from Rammstein has a new side project with Peter Tägtgren of Hypocrisy and Pain. What are the critics saying? Pigs, blood, phlegm and characters right out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting alternatively play in morbid grime or on a virginal white stage. Heavy guitar sounds, dark choirs and driving drum beats surge in the background. The lyrics are
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