There They Go AgainSean Carroll with a good post on a panel of physicists who love flirting with metaphysics: A few of the panel members tried to pin down Seth Lloyd on one of his favorite catchphrases, “The universe is a computer.” I tackled this one myself at one point, at least half-seriously. If the… Continue reading

Hitchens (Peter, not Christopher) with a fascinating and ominous piece on the state of Islam and Christianity…in the UK.

Not that it matters, but has anyone in the media offered the assessment that the late, desperate hiring on of the Buchanites, Bay with her brother lurking in the background, and their drumbeating for deportations, might be a key reason Romney quickly lost first Iowa and now New Hampshire? Just wondering. Rush Limbaugh had some… Continue reading

George Will on the new populism: According to Edwards, the North Carolina of his youth resembled Chechnya today — “I had to fight to survive. I mean really. Literally.” Huckabee, a compound of Uriah Heep, Elmer Gantry and Richard Nixon, preens about his humble background: “In my family, ‘summer’ was never a verb.” Nixon, who… Continue reading

Oh boy. If like me, you grew up in Boston in the sixties and seventies, you may recall the early days of bad movies on the local VHF channels, 56 and later 38. If so, here’s a blast from the past. Sometime in 1968, Channel 56, WKBG at the time, started running nightly movies at… Continue reading