Category Archives: News

Amazon and the Price Fixing Wars

Posted on Monday, April 16, 2012 by Keith

Last week, the Department of Justice brought a civil suit against Apple and the Big Six publishing houses,[1] charging them with price fixing. This has a lot of people in the publishing industry intrigued, to say the least, and even … Continue reading →

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Taking off the Gloves

Posted on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 by Keith

About fucking time: President Obama’s fruitless three-year search for compromise with the Republicans ended in a thunderclap of a speech on Tuesday, as he denounced the party and its presidential candidates for cruelty and extremism. He accused his opponents of imposing on … Continue reading →

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Raise the Apollo 11!

Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2012 by Keith

The Apollo 11 booster has been found: On July 16, 1969, the world watched as the Apollo 11 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, with three crewmen on board. Four days later, Neil Armstrong became … Continue reading →

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The Truth Is In Here, Too

Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by Keith

Remember the X-Files? At the end of every episode, there was the production card, that little bit of surrealism that identifies the show as being created by a particular production company, in this case, Chris Carter’s Ten thirteen productions. I … Continue reading →

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Rightious, Bloody Hands

Posted on Monday, May 2, 2011 by Keith

In my ideal fantasy world, Bin Laden would have been caught back in 2002 by President Gore, tried for his crimes in the world court and sent to prison. Part of his sentence would be that every few years, he … Continue reading →

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Talking Heads

Posted on Monday, March 7, 2011 by Keith

I could have a weekly roundup called “what the Rude Pundit said” so yeah, what he said: If the Rude Pundit were a really, really rich motherfucker, like in the several hundred million and above club, he’d call a meeting … Continue reading →

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They Don’t Hate Us For Our Freedoms after All

Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 by Keith

Over at the Awl, we find this enlightening piece on Egypt and Egyptians attitudes towards the US. Far from being the fever dream of our own would-be theocrats on the right, the situation is a lot more complicated and positive. … Continue reading →

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Business Opportunities Involving the London Bridge

Posted on Thursday, November 4, 2010 by Keith

Of all the novels we could be living in, this is not the one I would have suspected: Hansard is the official printed transcript of the proceedings of the houses of parliament — in other words, the working log of … Continue reading →

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Papal Bull

Posted on Saturday, September 18, 2010 by Keith

The Pope and I have never really seen eye to eye. More specifically, none of the Popes — neither the sinister smirking creep currently ensconced on the golden throne, nor the kindly-eyed cretinous gent who preceded him — have ever … Continue reading →

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Either Or

Posted on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 by Keith

Fred over at Slacktivist plays a round of everyone’s favorite game, Evil or Stupid? with the latest hollering out of the GOP noise machine: Today’s contestants are the 52 percent of Republicans who claim to believe that President Obama secretly … Continue reading →

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