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Back when I posted an entry on Ashlee Simpson’s SNL appearance, I said that it made me feel embarrassed to be human, and that I knew that there was a Spanish phrase that meant something like “alien embarrassment”, but that I didn’t know what that phrase was.
A helpful reader named Manuel informed me that the phrase I sought was pena ajena, which apparently means “mortification on behalf of another”. A fellow named David chimed in ...
As an undergraduate, I was drawn to Christianity because it’s so scary and weird and unfamiliar—unfamiliar to me, anyway. Sure, I had grown up with friends who went to church and a Baptist great grandmother, and I had the bare-bones version of the Jesus story residents of Western culture just kind of absorb, but I had never read the Gospels, and I had no idea of just how nutty they are.
Thanks to The Da Vinci Code, everybody’s ...
When asked to provide an example of someone who might be worthy of an abortion, Bill Napoli, a state senator from the benighted republic of South Dakota, had this to say:
A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I ...
The best is the enemy of the good.—Voltaire
I have taken some shit—in blog comment threads and in real life—for my willingness to support anti-choice Democrats. My position has been and remains: any Democrat is better than any Republican. In the case of the Pennsylvania Senate race, I would go so far as to argue that any carbon-based life form—ferret, sea slug, dust mite, algae—is better than Rick Santorum. Next to Santorum, George W. Bush is a man of ...
On February 23, 2006, the Central Michigan University Board of Trustees voted to award tenure to Dr. Edward William Clayton II. Way to go, handsome!
I’ve been getting a lot of mail from the Republican party. I asked Ted (he’s a political scientist) why that might be, and he suggested it’s because I am now a mother, and, as a mother, I am more likely to share the GOP’s “family” values than I was before giving birth. This says a great deal about the Republican party, and why they have any chance of continuing to win elections even though most Americans feel that the Republican ...
DVD Jon is all over the news, again. Where his team once hacked the encryption that prevented copying DVDs this time his sights are set on stop-gap software that will remove a large barrier to the digital rights game. DoubleTwist Ventures has picked up Jon Johansen to help develop code that will enable competing players to sidestep the restrictions that Apple has placed on who is allowed to play in the iTunes playground.
As an example, ...
What does it take to be an A-List blogger when there are over 57 million blogs out there (and still growing)? Well, according to one measure, at least 500 other blogs linking to you in the last 6 months (alas, fame can be so fleeting). You can calculate your blogebrity standing using this Technorati-powered widget made by Terry Ng at Kineda, who was inspired by Dave Sifry's latest report on the State of the Blogosphere. ...
Just a reminder that today is the last day to submit your nominations for the 2007 Bloggies. To nominate Popgadget (in the "Best Computers or Technology Weblog" category), get your submission in by 10:00 (EST), tonight, January 11th. Thanks for your support! Click here to get your vote in.
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