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Everybody should read Pandagon. Recently Amanda Marcotte has discussed the desperate effort to project sexual dimorphism onto food, the "religious oppression" of people who think the Constitution mandates religious tests for public office instead of forbidding them, and Ross Douchebag's theory* that the real oppressor class is the graduates of good schools.

*shared with Pat Buchanan and W*ll Sh*tt*ly, though she didn't say that.

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Every time Michael Steele says something that makes sense, his own party makes him walk it back.

--Daily Kos

Thanx to Oliver Willis

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One sometimes hears that books become bestsellers because they're shallow and ill-written. So why don't all the shallow, ill-written books in the slush piles sell? It seems obvious to me that the only way a book can succeed (in the marketplace, as a cult favorite, as an academic cult favorite a work of serious literature) is to do something right, though in some cases it's incompatible with literary values. Jo Walton applies this sort of thinking to a Hornblower in Space book.

All-around fail

Today's winner

Thanx to Shakesville

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The Washington Post discovers that fewer copy editors = more errors

Thanx to Lisa Gold: Research Maven

Living in bad sf/conspiracy fiction

There is a serious sane theory that our economic problems come from the fact that America's economy is controlled by an international Jewish banking firm