“Let us think the unthinkable
Let us do the undoable
Let us prepare to grapple with ineffable itself 
And see if we may not eff it after all”

Oh god, I’m slipping into moral realivism. Such rough-and-ready pragmatism taps into one of our deepest intellectual veins. It appeals to America’s collective self-image as a square-jawed action hero. And it may partly explain why the outcry against the White…

As mentioned before, the Genesis project is scheculed to return to Earth today. Good luck to the team; I hope they catch better than Bill Buckner.Yahoo! News – Space Capsule Heading Back to Earth

I think I have to read this. “The danger of American foreign policy,” [John Gray] writes, “is not that it is obsessed with evil but that it is based on the belief that evil can be abolished.” Such foolishness, he…

A computer game written by Douglas Adams is being revived to coincide with a new BBC Radio 4 series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.The text adventure will appear on the station’s website and was described by the late…

Is this trend officially over yet? Between the Alton Brown/Good Eats code, the Geek code, and the Personal Growth Geek Code (wtf?), I think we’re slowly approaching apogee. So, of course, I had to find out what my Blogger Code…

Former Navy Secretary John Lehman has no idea where a Silver Star citation displayed on Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s campaign Web site came from, he said Friday. The citation appears over Lehman’s signature. “It is a total mystery to…

Is this the future of sports? National Hockey League team owners are now seriously considering forming a new league. Don’t negotiate and it’s “The NHL is dead; long live the NHL”? I have no doubt they can do this, I…

Kerry apparently has the ability to solicit multiple citations for the same medal, something the Sun-Times quotes as calling “bizarre”. Of course, the original citation, issued by the Commander of Naval Ops in Vietnam at the time of the incident…

They tortured people in Iraq, they (the Iraqis) have no weapons of mass destruction. Could somebody explain to me whether you think they’re idiots or geniuses?” Idiocy only shows when you say stuff like this to Reuters. What a moron.…

Unbelievable. Jason Allen, a Zeeland native (working as a counselor at a Christian youth camp; surprise), was found shot in the head next to his fiance (or girlfriend, the papers are still working that one out) on a beach, apparently…