The High Art of Games + Romero interview

HALO and the High Art of Games: a history of the First Person Shooter From The HALO Effect BenBella Books, April 2007 In 1849, the great composer Richard Wagner described what he considered to be the ideal artwork of the future, a holistic unification of the high arts he christened Gesamtkunstwerk. Wagner proposed this artistic […]

Me So Ho

Me So Michelle gets her ho on at National Socialist Review: The Rutgers women’s basketball team didn’t deserve to be disrespected as “nappy-headed hos.” No woman deserves that. I agree with the athletes that Imus’s misogynist mockery was “deplorable, despicable and unconscionable.” And, as I noted on Fox News’s O’Reilly Factor this week, I believe […]

Don’t laugh

That would be anti-semitic: The Israeli ambassador to El Salvador has been recalled after he was found drunk, naked and bound in sexual bondage gear in his yard, an official said Monday. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that he could identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth…. […]

I have a number

And I’d like to know yours. Specifically, I’d like to get your count on two things: 1) The total number of known officially atheist national governments in world history. 2) The total number of estimated officially Christian national governments in world history. This can be trickier than it looks. For example, Sweden is commonly cited […]

Home of the Atheidiot

The godless commenters at Pharyngurl’s are almost as irrational as they are breathtakingly ignorant: They’re afraid that you’re going to do to them what they did to you and to anyone who didn’t think EXACTLY like them. They’re afraid that once the atheists take over, religion will be banned and its practitioners rounded up, jailed […]

That’s not a hard one

Over at Brent Rasmussen’s site, Jim Downey has a hard time understanding why most people would rather vote for a retarded Dachshund of questionable moral character and only three legs for President of the United States than a “generally well-qualified” atheist: Yup. Bottom of the list. [Gallup Poll indicating 45 percent would vote for an […]

Yet another Air Power failure looms

Surely this time, this time, air power will do the trick: Democrat leaders in Congress vow they’ll move to block President Bush from invading Iran, but Pentagon officials say that won’t be necessary, because they have no active plans for a ground attack. In fact, officials tell WND they have war-gamed a full-blown invasion and […]

And the Lizard Queen smiled

RK sends us a link informing us that John Edwards’ campaign is officially doomed: New BlogmasterAmanda Marcotte in Diaries Feed of Amanda Marcotte’s Diary1/30/2007 at 5:50 EST This is both my first post to the Edwards blog and my announcement that I’m joining the presidential campaign for John Edwards for 2008. I’ll be taking over […]

Why not isolate AIDS?

Isn’t it supposed to be the worstest, most deadliest disease ever in the history of Mankind? Perhaps TB is simply too dangerous to be fully unleashed on the planet. South Africa may forcibly isolate patients being treated for a highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis to prevent new infections from spreading on the AIDS-hit continent, health […]

Shhhh…la Paglia sta parlando

The Divine Camille in Salon. Five pages and a quote-worthy section on every page: Well, as long as the Democrats are perceived as the anti-religion party, we’re going to lose the culture wars…. I’m speaking here as an atheist who studies religion and respects it enormously. In the history of mankind, the benefits that religion […]