In Soviet Russia, Rubik's Cube Solves YOU

Yesterday I checked out Like Shaking Hands with God (Seven Stories Press, 1999), a book of conversations about writing between Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer. Boy, am I ever glad I didn't buy it, and all hail once more to public libraries, the training schools of socialism! I hadn't heard of Stringer before, but one small virtue of this one is that it pointed me toward his books. Vonnegut

In Soviet Russia, Rubik's Cube Solves YOU

Yesterday I checked out Like Shaking Hands with God (Seven Stories Press, 1999), a book of conversations about writing between Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer. Boy, am I ever glad I didn't buy it, and all hail once more to public libraries, the training schools of socialism! I hadn't heard of Stringer before, but one small virtue of this one is that it pointed me toward his books. Vonnegut

Resistance Is Futile

The Taser has become the sex toy of choice among American law enforcement officers, as shown most recently by the experience of this Marin County citizen. How exactly do you "stop resisting" when you're in convulsions from electric shock? (via Digby, via Sideshow) I'm reminded of a passage from Merle Miller's 1972 semi-autobiographical novel What Happened. The narrator recalls an anti-Fascist

Resistance Is Futile

The Taser has become the sex toy of choice among American law enforcement officers, as shown most recently by the experience of this Marin County citizen. How exactly do you "stop resisting" when you're in convulsions from electric shock? (via Digby, via Sideshow) I'm reminded of a passage from Merle Miller's 1972 semi-autobiographical novel What Happened. The narrator recalls an anti-Fascist

For Watching TV Without Nausea, Try Dramamine

Just to keep things in perspective it's useful periodically to point out that one cannot watch TV without frequent nausea. One tunes in for a run-of-the-mill fifteen-minute broadcast of evening news on "NBC, the Community Minded Station" -- this is part of the station's public-service obligation -- and what does the newscaster Merrill Mueller show us? First governor Rockefeller and his bride

For Watching TV Without Nausea, Try Dramamine

Just to keep things in perspective it's useful periodically to point out that one cannot watch TV without frequent nausea. One tunes in for a run-of-the-mill fifteen-minute broadcast of evening news on "NBC, the Community Minded Station" -- this is part of the station's public-service obligation -- and what does the newscaster Merrill Mueller show us? First governor Rockefeller and his bride