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Free Peter Berdovsky

Read the whole thing, including the links. Yes, it's about the whole Aqua Teen idiocy. A couple of points to make: 5. The FCC can't pull a private cable network's license, Mayor Hyperbole McFuckwit....

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The Dixie Chicks: God Bless Them

Their tag line for their movie, Shut Up & Sing is this: SHUT UP & SING illustrates that freedom of speech is fine… as long as it's not exercised in public. Is there any better illustration of...

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Judd Winick is Lost to Us

I was just flipping through some pre-One Year Later issues of Green Arrow. Here's my question: is it possible to have a page with Doctor Light in it where he doesn't remind us that he's a rapist? It...

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Dear Alice

Please never breed. Love, Widge

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Dear Charter Communications

In case you were wondering why you were unable to sell me on your VOIP service, it's because my cable modem is down now…again. And only an idiot has a single point of failure for all his...

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Atlas Said, "Come Again?"

This is rough. Check out this latest missive from the Pirate Bay guys. Now look at this line: Democracy is about freedom and its foundation lies within the fact that everyone has the right to all...

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Biometrics for a Beemer?

Give this a read. Sound familiar? How about when I put it like this: 1. We must do something to prevent fraud in buying autos! 2. Taking your thumbprint is something! 3. It must be done!

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Idiot Wants Red Bull Labels Changed

Here's the full article. My favorite bit: Now facing six weeks off work, he said warning labels on the products should be revamped to alert people that excessive consumption could lead to death. Labels...

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Radiohead Blowing People's Minds With Variable Pricing

Which is good, because they haven't blown my mind with music in a long time. Here's the really scary bit from this Time article: "This feels like yet another death knell," emailed an A&R executive...

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Never Become a Webmaster

If you're reading this, then either the One Tusk Pantheon is back online or you got really fucking lucky. We're in the middle of some sort of shitstorm that I don't even understand. Here, join me in a...

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Okay, We're Back

All right, here's the debrief. As I mentioned previously, we moved to the Dreamhost PS virtual private server thing. Unfortunately, we were getting clobbered by something somewhere that was keeping us...

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They've Invaded My Very Thoughts

They've raked through my mind, read my innermost desires, and have tapped into my greatest weakness: my neurotic, completist desire to have my favorite geek films vivisected and analyzed, along with...

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More on Overstock.com

Okay, so it really is Overstock's policy to be pushy. You know how you dread going into some stores because you're going to be pounced on by a sales rep? I'm on their site looking at comforters again,...

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Dover NJ Has Priorities Straight

Slightly late to the party on this one, but here we go. Now that it's been revealed that worrying about terrorists targeting gumballs is fucking lunacy (because really, when all of our public...

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