Double Reading

I know this is kind of cheeky, but this morning on Dr. Laura a mother called in worried about her child’s recent obsession with death (e.g. “Mommy you’re going to die before me and I’m going to die before my little brother”). Dr. Laura instructed the woman to tell her child that death is what [...]

While waiting for the big reveal about the final cylon, I found this sci-fi goodness on the Slog. Star Wars is such a major pop culture phenomenon that even if you haven’t watched the movie, I’m sure you know the main characters names, the various planets that they visit, who the bad guys are, etc. [...]

I love the io9 post about bad vampire hair. I actually liked Angel‘s hair…

I dunno if it’s a troll or what, but this post on the Apple forums about the iPhone saving raunchy pictures being a glitch is hilarious. “It wasn’t me, honey. My iPhone has a glitch that somehow calls my ex in the middle of the night when you are sleeping and makes up texts messages [...]

I’m proud to say that Dan Savage is a Seattle-ite and editor of our weekly paper (The Stranger). I love how he gets Colbert to laugh!!

Ever since I first saw Bruce Willis and Diddy show up at some MTV award show a few years ago together, I can’t help but laugh every time I see or hear about one or the other. With Bruce Willis’s Live Free Or Die Hard opening, he’s all over the place now and it just [...]

And now today’s For They Know Not What They Do quote of the day from Slavoj Zizek: We all remember from our youth the sublime dialectical materialist formulas of the “subjective mirroring-reflection of the objective reality”; (15) Ahhh yes. Our youth and that silly sublime dialectical materialist formulas! How can I forget!

Thanks to “our friend Wiki,” I have learned the best insult ever: [you] venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed mammal … that is how Wiki describes “one of the strangest specimens of the animal kingdom”: the Platypus.

While trying to find an article that fleshes out the similarities between the evil J.R. Ewing from the television series Dallas, I found this article: “Larry Hagman slams US president over Iraq.” Dude, Larry Hagman (who played J.R. on Dallas) is fucking hard-core! Look at this quote: JR Ewing in the Dallas series, said Bush [...]