The latest installment in the Medal of Honor video game series, scheduled to be released by Electronic Arts next month, is set in Afghanistan and allows players to fight for the Taliban in the online version.
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How to Fight for the Taliban Without Getting Detained As an Enemy Combatant
From Paul Bloom’s terrific new book How Pleasure Works : While people sometimes describe sex as their most pleasurable act, time-management studies find that the average American adult devotes just four minutes per day to sex—almost exactly the same time spent filling out tax forms for the government.
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Sad Fact of the Day
As I observed on Twitter last night (which you would have known if you were following me), the strangest thing about Markos Moulitsas’s stupid new book American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right is that it is blurbed by David Coverdale, the leather-faced former Whitesnake front man. Quoth Mr
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Roger Ebert, Hypocrisy, and “the Big Lie”
That’s the latest single-line animation from the fun folks at Electric Literature . What with the runaway spending, wars without end, and bizarre apologies to Liza Minelli that characterize this grim century, it’s always worth remembering that there are still really wonderful things out there in sick, sad world.
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A Brief Reminder of Why The Internets Are Really Cool
Porn, in an odd way, has told the story of Iraq’s security and political situation since Saddam Hussein’s ouster in 2003. It emerged in the anything-goes atmosphere that erupted in the vacuum immediately following the U.S. invasion – then went back into hiding amid the anarchy when armed militias roamed the capital through 2008, targeting those they saw as immoral
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Is Porn in Iraq a Sign of Progress?
Over at Vice magazine’s VBS.tv, senior editor Michael C. Moynihan talks Reason, libertarianism, and Glenn Beck
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Reason Writers Around Town: Michael C. Moynihan on VBS.tv
Should the FCC’s Internet policy seek to level the playing field between the big web content providers and their smaller, start-up competitors?
The inspiration for one of the worst movies of all time (Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451) and a pretty good one (Disney’s Something Wicked This Way Comes), and a bunch of better and worse books, has gotten into the Grandpa Simpson zone of Larry King-esque observational complaints. Here’s author Ray Bradbury in hypoglycemic overload: “We should never have left [the moon].
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Ray Bradbury Hysterical Theater: We Got Too Much Gummint, Too Many Internets, But Not Enough Moon Colonies!
On the second part of today’s episode of On Point , Associate Editor Peter Suderman talked with fellow guest Jonathan Zittrain about what the Google-Verizon proposal means for the future of the Internet, and whether or not the FCC should play a role in overseeing ISP business models. Listen in here.
Hal Turner, a right-wing radio shock jock that has advocated violence against minorities and judges multiple times, was convicted last Friday of threatening the lives of three appeals judges . It was his third trial on the charge — two prior juries had deadlocked
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Shock Jock Gets Prison For Advocating Murder
