Myths About Myths
Mar 25Mythconception #1 (Greek): The Trojan Horse is in the Iliad. Even Daria fell for this one, in the episode when she tried to get her younger sister to read the Iliad: DARIA: Try this. I think you’ll get into it. QUINN: Ha, ha, very funny. Now give me something that I can read. DARIA: No, [...]
Not Everyone Fears the Coming of the Black Freighter
Mar 23This translation of the lyrics isn’t the most accurate one, but it’s the one that inspired Alan Moore.
Sorry, No Death For You
Mar 23Just heard NM Gov. Bill Richardson on Maddow explaining that one of his reasons for opposing the death penalty is that prison conditions are so awful in his state that imprisonment is actually a worse punishment than death anyway. Well, I’m glad he opposes the death penalty, I guess; but this has got to be [...]
Terror Chic
Mar 21Israeli soldiers are wearing t-shirts that celebrate rape, murder, and infanticide against Palestinians. (See here and here; conical hat tip to LRC.) Of course they don’t just wear warcrime, they actually commit it, but the wearing is certainly evidence – if anyone needed it – of mens rea.
BSG Channels Star Wars
Mar 20On tonight’s BSG finale (which I’m still watching), what Simon says to Boomer is a direct quote from Tarkin on the Death Star.
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