§ Politics
It’s hard to pay attention to 9/11 conspiracy theorists. The actions of the Bushmen after the twin tower and pentagon bombings already fail the smell test for most people who have followed the machinations of the oval office since the terrorist acts. But Barrie Zwicker takes conspiracy theories to the next level. The journalist and documentary maker reveals to George... more
§ Science
The International Astronomical Union just hit Pluto with a semantic Death Star ray. Pluto, is no longer officially considered a planet. Burn your old high school textbooks. We have just 8 planets in our solar system now. The only benefit I see from this reclassification is that it is now 11% more likely that any randomly chosen planet in our... more
§ Comics
Watchmen changed comics. It is a phenomenal graphic novel with so much narrative and aesthetic depth that it takes multiple reads to absorb all the layers that the tandem of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons managed to cram into this book. One of those layers is a comic-within-a-comic known as Tales of the Black Freighter, a macabre pirate story that... more
SCI FI Wire provides some less than inspiring news about the vehicle modes that will be used in the live-action Transformers movie: Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, writers of the upcoming Transformers movie, told fans that the movie will take a real-world approach to its depictions of the robots that can change from everyday objects such as cars into futuristic... more
§ Weird
Ross Rebagliati, the snowboarder who won olympic gold for Canada while baked is claiming that a character on a TV show about Whistler is based on him: Rebagliati says the TV character is a blond, blue-eyed Olympic snowboarding gold medallist from Whistler who is shown driving drunk and womanizing. —CBC May it’s just because I find his monotonous voice and... more