Richard Armitage knows what the word “incredulous” means; but the folks who write the headlines at TheOneRing.net don’t.
Archive | July, 2011
How the Daleks Stole Christmas
Maybe it’s not quite as iconically, surreally, perversely enjoyably awful as Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo ballad, but the Dalek Christmas song – by the Go-Go’s (but not the proper Go-Go’s), from 1964 – is still a blight upon the face of the universe. So of course I have to inflict it on you:
The only bearable part is the bit where they’re ripping off the Peter Gunn theme.
If You Prick Us, Do We Not Burst?
Jesse Walker’s latest column does a great of replying to internet critics like Eli Pariser, Andrew Shapiro, and Cass Sunstein, who think the internet is isolating us from viewpoints we disagree with.
You can post a comment disagreeing with him, but I won’t read it.
Fourth Rock From the Sun
Here’s the first trailer for John Carter of Mars (or John Carter, as they’re calling it now, though the logo is still “JCM”):
It looks enough like Barsoom to make me hopeful, and enough unlike Barsoom to make me pessimistic.
You can see it bigger and prettier here.
Top of the Pops
The good news: C4SS is on the list of top 50 libertarian websites.
The bad news: we seem to have fallen from #30 to #43.
(But you can always help get us back up by contributing to our fundraiser. Even a $5 or $10 monthly pledge would be terrific!)
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 7
Gary Chartier’s latest BHL post explains why bleeding hearts should be anarchists.
In related news, see Stuart Bramhall on anti-union laws.