Doctor Thing
Apr 07During his famous run on Swamp Thing, Alan Moore turned the hero into an alienated, vastly powerful cosmic being who teleports himself all over the universe – his only remaining emotional link to humanity being his girlfriend Abby Arcane, who lounges around idly in the swamp waiting to provide him with sex and nurturing whenever [...]
Democrats For Plutocrats
Apr 07Left-leaning libertarians and libertarian-leaning leftists have been saying for years that “liberals” (in the mainstream sense), far from wielding the club of governmental regulation against big business, have been among the chief enforcers of corporate interests. Now we get confirmation straight from the horse’s mouth. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Conical hat tip [...]
Hail to Our Martian, or Perhaps Simian, Overlords
Apr 07Imagine a world where Conan, Xena, and Blackadder were real people while Hitler, Mussolini, and Churchill weren’t. A world where the Battle of Helms Deep really happened but the Battle of Hastings didn’t. Sounds like a better world than the real one – until we add in that it’s also a world in which humanity [...]
Fun With Totalitarianism
Apr 07Alina is blogging the top 100 books on totalitarianism, and she has asked me to suggest my own top ten. But I’m lousy at such rankings – I can never answer “what’s your favourite X?” or “what’s the greatest Y?” questions. So I decided I’d just come up with a list of ten “pretty good” [...]
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