So planning for a European jaunt this summer I did a little research and found some decent discount airfare sites. It had been a while since I really searched for some new ones. While there are a few discount international deals, there’s nothing like RyanAir or EasyJet in Europe. Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia suck, […]

Christ, I wish someone would hurry up and remake Logan’s Run. Damn those Wachowski brothers and their Speed Racer!
It occurred to me that Logan’s Run is perhaps little more than the dystopian imagining of the uber-welfare/warfare state gone slightly awry. After all, we may not have Sleepshop, the public sporting-extermination of those over 21, […]

Reason Magazine - Paul Had a Point
Ron Paul was attacked like a liberal at Fox News lynching for daring to suggest that interventionist foreign policy might have had something to do with terrorist attacks on the US, the GOP further cementing it’s break with conservatism.
(tags: politics gop terrorism iraq)

I really want to make a good joke about Deepwater or Blackwater, but it’s just eluding me. Let’s see…Deepwater…What do you get with loads of “free” taxpayer money, no oversight, and several colossal bureaucracies? Nah, just depresses me.
But you heard about Deepwater, right? Part of the program was to lengthen already existing Coast Guard […]

Reason Magazine - The Folly of Southern Hospitality
The Loaf’s own John Sugg tackles corporate subsidies in the South.
(tags: atlanta government economics politics)

Foreign Policy: Inside the Digital Dump
Photos of recycled computer heaps in China.
(tags: computers photography recycling)

Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff Confirm Final Season of Battlestar Galactica!!!
Well, quit while you’re slightly ahead. Last season was weak, weak, weak, except for the first couple and last episode. I’d rather see them quit than ruin this thing.
(tags: entertainment tv battlestargalactica scifi)

You’ve certainly heard of Parkour by now, even if not by name. But have you heard of Por Quoi? Give it till halfway through when they start doing the goofy stuff. Skate pool scene kills me. If I were Wes Anderson, or a Wes Anderson competitor, my next feature film would involve a rising […]

Wooster Collective: From The Vaults of Improv Everywhere: Anton Chekov
Chekov makes an appearance in NYC. Funny.
(tags: comedy literature)

Traveling through Greece years ago, I met a Swede who spent his summers partying on the Greek Isles…funded by his government’s unemployment program. What was his disability, you wonder? Like every young and able bodied man, it was simply not wanting to work. So he snookered the system and collected his dough, came to Greece […]