Birthday Drinks In The Rue Morgue

Many happy (yet dark and brooding) returns today to the detective story:
In 1841, on this day, the first detective story was published. In his story The Murders in the Rue Morgue, published in Graham’s Magazine, Edgar Allan Poe (books by this author) created mystery’s first fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin. The story introduced many of [...]

I Did Not See That Coming

Soul Calibur IV game trailer, yadda yadda yadda whaHEY!
(Takes a while to load unless you’re on a T1, so hit pause once it starts to play, let the whole clip load, then watch.)

The Secret Word is… “Farkakte”

Reed Hundt at TPM takes an avuncular tone arguing for reason and strategy in the liberal blogosphere. I’ll tilt at that windmill with him:
… What bloggers need to do is focus now on the madness and not on the Clinton vs Obama counterpoint, which all of us can agree is getting old. What all Democrats [...]

I Love The Smell Of Hegemony In The Morning

It’s not really “news,” per se, but it’s interesting analysis. Via the NY Times:
…To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of [...]