Category: long story short

“I think they hypnotized me and put implants and poltergeists in my brain and had sex with me.”

ShortStrings (no permalinks, but it was posted Tuesday, October 08, 2002), says Andrew Sullivan reports that Christopher Hitchens’s new book on Orwell went from 1,074 to 4 on Amazon’s best seller list after he chose it for his next book club discussion. Are we going to have to coin a new weblog word for this…

Here are some Haikus Making fun of local bands. Fish in a barrel

eXile #151 – Feature Story – 18 Ways to Hate Your Neighbour – Table #1 What European Tribes Think About One Another

We are the alien overlords. I am reading in the New York Times our detailed plans for laying seige of cities in Iraq. We will attempt to control the minds of the inhabitants (demoralizing the fighters, calming the civilians), and systematically in our now infinitely superior ways conquer each city. We have become the creatures…

Kevin Tuma hates FDR and Lincoln, favoring Goldwater and Reagan. What’s interesting about this article is that he voices the “dirty little secret” of the Republican party. It is not now and has never been a conservative party, especially not in the sense of small-government conservatism. If you ask me, the Democrats are a fundamentally…