Per aspera

Okay, so Battlestar Galactica.  Pretty much the greatest show ever put on television, huh?  I’m halfway through season two so far.  Sweet Jesus.

It takes a formidable political machine to inflict on the rest of us such an unholy combination of The Story of O and Horse Feathers.
-Charles Pierce on the Republican Revolution.

Fred Clark:
Saw an ad on TV for Panasonic bathroom exhaust fans. Odd.
While I don’t question the quality of their craftsmanship, I’m not sure that Panasonic understands the function of their product. They’re touting their bathroom exhaust fans as the quietest money can buy, naming them things like “WhisperFit” and “Whisper Lite.”
That’s really not what I’m […]

1. “Buck Buck (feat. Poet),” Dan the Automator
2. “Vengeance,” Mekons
2.5 “I Don’t Understand You,” They Might Be Giants
3. “Metropolitan Glide,” Tom Waits
4. “Stand By The Jams 12″Version,” The KLF
5. “Dirty Little Secret,” Sarah McLachlan
6. “Stand By The Jams,” The KLF
7. “Asleep And Dreaming,” The Magnetic Fields
8. “X-ecutioners (Theme) Song,” The X-Ecutioners
9. “Unrelated Thing,” They Might […]

What were the Democrats of Connecticut thinking when they voted against this man?
During last nights debate, Sen. Lieberman, noting Abraham Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus, declared, “We’re in another time like that.”
Can America afford to have a Senate that lacks Joe Lieberman’s honesty and integrity?

From some guy on blogspot:
There’s this attitude out there where one’s foreign policy abilities are judged by whether you supported the right wars, with people like Peter Beinart checking off their little lists. The foreign policy hawks see supporting wars as courageous acts, as if sending other peoples’ kids off to die and voting for […]

Scientists Put Shrimp on a Treadmill
The shrimp treadmill, invented and built by Scholnick, allows researchers to measure the activity of an exercising shrimp for a set period of time at known speed and oxygen levels.
“As far as I know this is the first time that shrimp have been exercised on a treadmill and it was […]

“Whining.” Christ.
Victor Davis Hanson is one of those guys who thinks of the GWOT® as the U.S.’s very own big-stage metaphorical Thermopylae.
Like everyone with such a fantasy, he never considers that his side might turn out to be the Persians.

…in my belly, it gives me a blazar for the rest of the day.
(via Bad Astronomy Blog)

A whimsical poem.
This happened in September:
Authorities in the capital Reykjavik will turn off street lights on Thursday evening and people are also being encouraged to sit in their houses in the dark, writer Andri Snaer Magnason said on Wednesday. While the lights are out, an astronomer will describe the night sky over national radio.
(via BLDGBLOG)

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. I’m serious.

Yacht Rock Episode 1
Yacht Rock Episode 2
Yacht Rock Episode 3
Yacht Rock Episode 4
Yacht Rock Episode 5 (my favorite)
Yacht Rock Episode 6
Yacht Rock Episode 7
Yacht Rock Episode 8
Yacht Rock Episode 9
Yacht Rock Episode 10
After having made episodes for a year, they stopped […]

Via BoingBoing, some truth for God’s youth:
The Church of God is made up of seven separate eras, recorded in Revelation 2 and 3. Today we live in the Laodicean era (Rev. 3:14-21)—the seventh and last era of the Church. Last century was, for the most part, the time of the sixth era, Philadelphia.
Okay, that’s harsh. […]

Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise rounds up some disputation of the latest Lancet study [.pdf] of excess Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion from some of our comrades on the right, who will let nothing deter them from their commitment to bravely defending the powerful. My favorite quotation was this:
When the statistics announced by hospitals […]

Kathryn Cramer is looking into the case of Joseph Cafasso, lately a Fox News consultant, whose military career turns out to have been a good deal less glory-saturated than he has claimed.
He claimed he was a SEAL, among other things. I will never, to my dying day, understand why someone would falsely, in public, […]

It’s only one poll, but that’s a hell of a big number:
Mr. Bush’s job approval has slipped to 34 percent, one of the lowest levels of his presidency, posing a complication for the White House as it seeks to send him out on the road to rally base voters. Mr. Bush’s job approval rating has […]