Just as I was shutting down and heading to bed, I caught wind that today, October 9th, is National Porn Sunday. How can I pass that one up before going to sleep? According to its sponsors, xxxchurch.com, “Now is your chance to bring hope to those in your congregation who are struggling with pornography.” I [...]

I consider all New York Yankees ugly, but Giambi and Matsui have got to be the two ugliest. “The New Face of Baseball” indeed — ugly ugly ugly. Which do you think is something the dog dragged in? I can’t wait until the Angels dispatch with them in Anaheim on Monday so we can be [...]

Glaswegians hosted — again — the World Science Fiction Convention this past August. The poster for it was pretty cool (you can get a big PDF version of it here). While there are a good number of British sci-fi authors, I don’t usually associate Scottish people with science fiction. Rather, I think of kilts, Mike [...]

Betcha didn’t know (unless perhaps you’re South Korean) that today, October 9th, is Hangul Day, in commemoration of the date that the Korean “alphabet” was introduced in 1446. Before the end of WWII it was celebrated on different days, but in the postwar period it was declared a legal holiday that workers got off. In [...]

Finally a new film that I want to go see and I actually do so during its opening weekend last week. David Cronenberg’s latest, A History of Violence, is a must-see for anyone who contemplates Big Questions about human nature and the use and abuse of violence in the world. Don’t let the title and [...]