Unqualified Offerings

A right-wing blogger glosses Barack Obama’s latest surely-campaign-killing scandal-statement as
Obama To Rural Pennsylvanians: Vote For Me, You Corncob-Smokin’, Banjo-Strokin’ chicken-Chokin’ Cousin-Pokin’ Inbred Hillbilly Racist Morons
And shame on Senator Obama for that. I grew up in several different parts of rural Pennsylvania and I never saw anybody smoke corncobs.
Meantime, Barack Obama seems to have been “finished [...]

Der BoogerPanzer!

Holy Hanna! Samuel R. Delany’s landmark essay on reading and writing science-fiction, "About Five Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Words," is online. I don’t know how correctly as to copyright, but it made a huge impression on me when I first read it in a (remaindered) book.
Via Amygdala.

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I’ve been a white guy all my life. Most of my best friends have been white guys. A white guy was best man at my wedding. We have several white families on my street. I have worked for white bosses and with white co-workers and dated white women – even married one. So I don’t [...]

IOZ writes about this week’s government-mandated Slut Parade, aka the Mayflower Madam trial:
"If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink," wrote Caroline Nichols Churchill, "they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal."
Churchill was an [...]

Meanwhile commenter LWM points us to some niggling problems with our fuzzy, big-eyed mechanical-death-robots, as reported by Popular Mechanics via the Register:
Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending [...]

Somewhere the Stiftung argued that our federal "security" system was forever desperate for technical fixes to its manifest incompetence at the human conduct of relating to, or even running, the world. (I’d welcome a link. He talked about advances in robot war machines and maybe body armor.)
Exhibit 5,271,009 in evidence of his thesis is the [...]