I really do enjoy good optical illusions. I've previously linked to this site, Mighty Optical Illusions, where you can find hundreds of well-crafted illusions. It's really worth a visit. Because it's Halloween, though, I decided to link to an illusion that involves something more--something terrifying (it startled me when I…
Consider this report from MSNBC: A Michigan man who bowled his first perfect game immediately collapsed in the bowling alley and died.
Andrew Sullivan sums it up: No social and cultural moderate can be a Republican presidential ticket in the era of Rove. So McCain was left with the party that brung him - and we now know what motivates that party: fear of the other and religious fanaticism.
The Onion has a spirited debate on whether Americans have lost sight of the true meaning of Halloween. How timely! In The Know: Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?
Rachel Maddow talks intelligently, extremely intelligently. As she reports here, today wasn't a good day for John McCain. It was a joy to hear Maddow interview with Barack Obama on why he doesn't attack "conservatives," the future of energy and Pakistan. Maddow represents the direction journalism needs to go. Probing,…