MORE FUN WITH GOOGLE: The latest disturbing search requests that brought visitors to my site. In order ending with my favorites–though truly, it was hard to choose. guatemalan laws on marriage between cousins angry women are building paula gunn allen free animation about IVF in farm animals someone pierce navel in kuwait and where can I pierce my navel in Kuwait? interracial wicca lust christian thought thinking fun porn movie cops search for aliens cloning human centurions of Rome free... Read more

BERNARD SHAW ON PAPAL INFALLIBILITY: Found a quote in this month’s First Things that offers a useful, clarifying, and humbling perspective on papal infallibility: “I had better inform my readers that the famous dogma of papal infallibility is by far the most modest profession of its kind in existence. Compared to our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before God.” Read more

“The Terror of the Monster Rabbits–Out to Destroy Everything in their Path…. They Multiply, They Weigh 150 Pounds, They’re Four Feet Tall–And They Kill…. Even Dynamite Can’t Stop the Hopping of These Giants.” –Advertisement for “Night of the Lepus” Read more

JANE JACOBS ON CRIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: So the crime referred to in yesterday’s post took place in the middle of the afternoon, in broad daylight. This is the criminals’ MO; they’ve done the same crime several times, to different victims throughout the area. How did the criminals get away with it? It was easy. The area they hit is entirely residential. No stores. No gathering places. No watchful eyes. The place empties out during the day. This is exactly... Read more

CAMP: I’m confused when people try to describe something as “camp” because it treats some usually-serious thing (religion, or sex, or love, or patriotism, or whatever) as just ridiculous. That style of mockery generally has a heavy dose of contempt for people who don’t find the ridiculous thing ridiculous. It also usually presents breaking away from conventional values as much easier than it really is. Camp, to me, is darker, more nuanced, more double-tongued. To be camp, rather than just... Read more

“A TEEN STAR FOR A NEW, BLEAKER AGE”: Have been looking over the zine I used to do with my best friend from high school. It went through 26 issues (# -1 through # 24) and I said a lot of stupid stuff, oh well. But it was a good exercise in humility, like reading old diaries. Angsty, Magritte-influenced (yet still cliched) fiction; obsessive gay-pride stuff; and willful obscurity. It was fun though. Certainly a precursor to this blog. Lists... Read more

BLAH!: So Thursday evening, I was returning to the office to work and blog, and I had this cute little post worked up in which I explained that I’d gone home during the day to take a nap, which had turned into a MUCH longer nap than I’d anticipated, so I hadn’t posted anything all day. I was planning to tell you all, in this cute little post, about my dream, in which I’d been at sea, on a kind... Read more

“I think you’re wondering how you might get us to reveal our knowledge of interplanetary travel. And how you might force that information from us. Others of you are estimating the heights to which you might rise if you could personally arrange for our cooperation in space travel techniques. Well, forget it.” –Helmut Dantine (as a Venusian), “Stranger from Venus” Read more

BACK IN A FEW: Hey there. No time to post. Spent much of last night & today dealing with extremely irritating criminal activity in my vicinity (don’t worry, everyone’s OK), so now I’m way behind on work and basically don’t have any time for you all. However, I have at least ten things to post about! So I will be blogging late tonight, this weekend, and so forth. Weekend topics: epistemology & ethics; my punk past; sex ed; camp (the... Read more

Mister Trouble never hangs around When he hears this Mighty sound. “Here I come to watch the blogs”… Unqualified Offerings is still your clearinghouse for sniper news. This post also argues, rightly IMO, that we should be a pack, not a herd. For those following the Ossuary Discovery, this post from Telford Work and the comments at Amy Welborn’s site provide lots of food for thought. I’m, uh, really really glad that I seem to have mostly missed a large... Read more