- Wretchard writes on suicide bombers as the "least cost-effective weapon."
- And if you haven't seen this one yet: another Matrix parody. Of ping-pong.
- The long-delayed, previously regular, Fetish Find of the Month (probably not safe for work): smoking women (via Geisha Asobi).
- Some bad use of statistics here: California is not Iraq.
- We knew the Man Who Would Be Governor had a checkered past, but this is just embarrassing.
- More poets on novelists: Eileen Tabios on Wilfrido Nolledo, and Ron Silliman on Philip K. Dick.
- And if you had a lot of disposable income and wanted to invest in something super-kitschy, let me give you an idea where to spend it.
- Tom Tomorrow writes on the Dean campaign.
- MacDiva writes a "defense" of Tom Cruise, of all people.
- A lovely poem on Tram Spark (it's the one that begins "The worst bits of love").
- I want a copy of this comic book; where can I get it?
- Slim's in San Francisco has a great lineup in October: Shonen Knife with Deerhoof opening on the 9th, My Morning Jacket on the 10th, two Guided By Voices dates on the 17th and 18th, and Cannibal Ox on the 30th.
- And I'll end with an extended excerpt from Reverend Mykeru on those two tons of rock in Alabama:
Asking whether or not [Judge] Moore should be compelled to follow the law is the wrong question because unless someone amended the Bill of Rights while I wasn't looking, his little brownie-points-with-Jesus stunt is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. I've seen the Constitution. It's in a sealed, inert gas-filled case in the National Archives building. I've looked it over thoroughly and there is no fine print that gives a special exemption for Fundamentalist Christians.So the fundies have a clear choice: Obey the Constitution, amend the Constitution or pack the their fucking bags and head off to the jungles of Guyana where they can follow "God's law". Here in this country, in the 21st century we follow secular law and God shouldn't even be able to get his parking tickets fixed.
Nothing is so strange as the particularly American spectacle of people who fancy themselves to be uber-patriots and more- American-than-American thinking they can willfully break the law, even if they justify it with a laughably thin revisionist take on the intent and purpose behind the Constitution.