You were so busy worrying about 1984 you didn't notice you were living Brave New World. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a...on civil liberties from on high, particularly under the last administration, along with a reactionary anti-intellectualism that openly scorns the quest for knowledge, giving us the worst of both

I've never, in the past, been particularly impressed by beatboxing. I've never been particualrly impressed by neo-Luddites, either, particularly the irrationally violent neo-Luddites like Ted "Unabomber"...peculiar definition of "freedom," which takes six rather lengthy paragraphs in the manifesto to explain. 3 Before that, he lived in his parents' basement. I swear I am not making this up

There is an old-school type of fraud, conducted by phone, that's the old-world equivalent of the "phishing" emails you get all the time. You know the ones I mean--the emails that say "There has been a...but gullible enough to believe that the number they see on the caller ID is actually the number that the con artist is calling from. *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk

Since my Web browser currently has a zillion pages open (and is consuming mass quantities of RAM as a result), and since I can't use the browser on my iPhone because the maximum possible number of pages...Lincoln Savings and Loan, singlehandedly triggering the collapse of the entire S&L industry. To Keating, you see, porn = immoral, stealing the life savings from working families = perfectly moral

For what may arguably be the first time in its history, the Catholic Church has anticipated a new technology, rather than lagging a few centuries behind , as is more traditional. Last year, Pope Sidious...lifesaving research by holding that certain forms of medicine are inherently sinful--and not just sinful, but mortal sins--that's a level of wrong I can't quite even find the words for