Category Archives: Popular Culture
Demand Pull
War has probably advanced technology more than any other human endeavor, except when it comes to communications technology. There the driver has always been porn.
Six Ancient Traditions
The fact that fundamentalist Islam isn’t that old should make it a lot easier to knock it out of the culture, but we’re too politically correct to even talk about how to do so. Unfortunately, though, it is older now than Nazism was in 1945.
How Do You Say “Realpolitik…”?
…in Klingon? Thoughts on the Hawking alien thesis.
The Slander Of The Samaritans
Oddball thoughts from Lileks. Yes, I’d never thought about it before, but he’s right — unless Samaritans are truly notoriously bad people, “good Samaritans” is sort of like “compassionate conservatives.”
More Earth Day Celebration
Andy Borowitz: “I’m not sure if a gigantic oil rig sinking was the best way to celebrate Earth Day.”
But they’d been planning it for months!
[Update a few minutes later]
On this Earth Day, thank Big Oil.
The Downfall Of The Thousand-Video Reich
First they came for Hitler. And of course, Hitler is understandably upset.
I Have Never Seen A Rambo Movie
Discuss.
[Update after reading comments]
I’ve never seen a Rocky movie, either. Make of it what you will.
You Don’t Know Che
We need more music videos like this one. (Probably needs high bandwidth to view.)
And Here I Thought It Already Was
Especially the most recent three. Star Wars as a comedy series.