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Warren Ellis brings us a disturbing answer to a troubling question.
iayork could've been the coolest Dad ever.
E. Howard Hunt died three months ago, and talked about LBJ's involvement in the assassination of JFK.
"I have a great idea. Let's rebuild the Internet from scratch!"
Baseball might be getting rid of its longest-used performance enhancer, but in the meantime, the one undetectable performance enhancer might not be all that enhancing.
Fox News never fails to disappoint: "Could [Seung-Hui] Cho have been possessed by the Devil? Could that explain the massacre at Virginia Tech?"
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has decided that the bit in the Second Amendment about "a well-regulated militia" was just fluff. This is a complicated one, because i don't disagree with the decision, but i'm not crazy about the way they got there. I wonder about how laws like Minnesota's Personal Protection Act can help Americans be responsible gun owners, and what the effect of these laws are (and, Seth, if you happen to be reading this, you're still a douche).
This one's a real corker: Jundallah, a wholly owned subsidiary of Al-Qaeda, has been receiving carefully funnelled financial support from the United States and is fighting the Iranian government. Follow all the links. You know what? Nothing surprises me anymore. All of my predictions have come true. At least we have the liberal media hammering the ... oh, wait, a Blue Angel crashed. Sorry, where were we?