The TSA is a completely ineffective agency that has wasted billions of dollars, has not stopped any terrorist attacks and has made air travel much more miserable for travelers. Created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, it has experienced a … Read the rest…
Anita Sarkeesian has created a series of videos and lectures about how women are demeaned, harassed and threatened online, by gamers and the video game industry, which uses women’s bodies as playthings and rewards. For this she has received death … Read the rest…
Here are some fun links to sites hat have a large amount of tawdry, cheap, pulp book and magazine covers from days done by. They’re called “pulp”, by the way, because they were printed on cheap, low quality paper, for … Read the rest…
State legislators pass a lot of bills, and some of that efficiency is thanks to a shadowy, secretive group called ALEC that writes legislation for them, putting the interests of corporations ahead of the people. It’s as shady as it … Read the rest…
The last stop on my three day road trip was the huge, two-story Tallahassee Automobole Museum, which has a huge collection of classic cars, cash registers, outboard motors, knives, the list goes on. One highlight is one of the hearses … Read the rest…
Old Car City in White, Georgia is an enormous auto junkyard shaded by trees, with thousands of classic cars and trucks being taken back by nature. Six miles of paths wind among the rows of cars, trucks and vans, which … Read the rest…
This is riveting, haunting stuff. These are actual transcripts from recordings of the various air traffic controllers and military personnel reacting to the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11, as well as the two other planes that were hijacked, on … Read the rest…
There’s a club where movie characters mingle, outside of time and reality, where different characters played by the same actors encounter each other. This is Hells Club, and it’s masterfully done. … Read the rest…
I love this video, which uses mirrors to great effect. Cars dissapear as they collide…or appear out of thin air. A mirror image of the ground hovers above its counterpart below. For best results, expand the video to full screen … Read the rest…
Charles Schultz drew his iconic comic strip for an incredible fifty years, totaling 17,897 strips. Arguably the most popular comic strip in history, Peanuts became a cultural icon, published all over the world and leading to a thriving merchandising enterprise. … Read the rest…
