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"Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich agains...

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childi...

This is the Hyuga , the newest destroyer to be commissioned into Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force. It is not an aircraft carrier. Jus...

This just in - MSNBC "pundit" Tucker Carlson is still a dick . In fact, he's an even bigger dick than previously suspected. ...

Watch and then go learn how, no matter how cool you thought this was, it's even cooler than that . Much of the money raised is going t...

So Pope Benedict is in Africa and as popes usually do when they visit places suffering from poverty, AIDS and overpopulation, reminded Afric...

GOP catfight ! Meghan " my daddy c ould have been president" McCain vs. Ann "the man" Coulter & Laura "Coulter ...

Canada's Minister of Science and Technology Gary Goodyear won't say whether he believes in evolution . "I'm not going to an...

Read this thought-provoking little essay by Robert Freeman and you'll find yourself wondering whether this kid has learned all the word...

Darth Cheney speaks and the stench of brimstone is overwhelming. I watched this live and if the interview had been 5 minutes longer, I'...

Yup, that's me - in the cartoon world of Second Life. As some of you already know, I do an internet radio show built around a weekly Sec...

Yeah, this should be entertaining when and if it gets to court . The short version of events is this: Sudanese Abousfian Abdelrazik fled civ...

The Woodshed is now an affiliate of the Canadian Progressive Bloggers after long being a supporter. That means that we now have the nifty ...

A couple of messages from one of the neighbours Billy Bob Neck speaks for the heartland of America.

Big darkness, soon come About 1,500 people live in this shantytown, huddling in tents and makeshift shelters built of scrap lumber and plast...

Creativity World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo . Want to know what building stuff in Second Life is like? Watch this. h/t to Shini

Look, just buy the damn thing already! Audio by Caleb Bullen of the Black Tie Martini Club, video by Shinigami Kayo of Shini' s World. A...

two girls, four strings

The end of an comedic era and a new SLOTM "Oh, somewhere in this favored land Alberta, the sun is shining where the crooks are not too...

Apparently somebody is reading this stuff after all While I always appreciate getting a link, if this is CNN's idea of making up for al...