It’s not too many times you can skim through the news and see the phrase ‘sailor mongering’ tossed around like a beach ball. In a positive sign for society as a whole, the ‘sailor mongering’ case was thrown out by a Miami judge. Though I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad thing that maybe a […]

How Old Do You Think I Am? A project where people post their picture online to have others guess at their age. The possible benefit (and potential detriment) being that you get a more or less objective answer to the question, “how old do I look?” via the composite (i.e., average of guesses) that shows […]

In a long, tired tradition of trying to bring important, underreported stories to the forefront, the UN’s put together a web page of “10 Stories the world needs to know more about.” Needless to say, you should probably take a least a couple minutes to skim over the details of various catastrophes and humanitarian crises […]

Been meaning to post this for a while. On the care tags of some of the fine goods produced by Tom Bihn (ed: I have no idea of the quality of the products one way or the other): The bottom highlighted portion, “Nous sommes desoles que notre president soit un idiot. Nous n’avons pas vote […]

Kurt Vonnegut has a wickedly excellent and stupendous and outstanding article about America and Oil, of all things. Although really it’s about everything. What can I say? It’s outstanding. I’d quote the whole thing, just to get you to read it, but that probably wouldn’t work anyway, so I’m just going to ask you nicely. […]

In an interesting contrast, an article in the Guardian says US brands are hurting abroad, and had better watch out, while the NYT says, wow, incredible! despite war and abuse, America’s brands are doing just peachy-keen in lands afar. The gist of the NYT article is, in spite of a few minor (and basically insignificant) […]

Global Issues is an interesting web site that offers commentary and information on a whole host of topics, from Racism to Global Warming to the International Criminal Court. Haven’t had too much of a chance to explore it, but it seems to have some good stuff. (And with the title “Global Issues That Affect Everyone,” […]

Seymour Hersh, the legendary investigative reporter who won the 1970 Pulitzer for exposing the My Lai massacre, won the public-interest prize for three articles on the Bush administration’s Iraq policy. Hersh did not attend the awards, held at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, because he was busy working. Reached at his Washington office, he was also […]