Riot

Are white people barbarous enough to riot if their candidate loses? Amanda Marcotte remembers Florida in 2000. (We shouldn't give Ralph Nader all the credit for Dubya's victory; these guys contributed just as much.)

Thanx to Pandagon.

Time travel

Tor visualizes Ada Lovelace through the centuries.

Coffee

A while ago, John Scalzi did a post saying that coffee tastes like ass. Now he admits that he drinks it when there's lots of other stuff in it. He says that coffee is popular just because it's a drug, but it can't be as simple as that, because there's a market for decaf coffee but not for cocaine-free crack.

I like coffee insofar as it aspires to the condition of ice cream: lots of sweet stuff, lots of milklike stuff, a little coffee. It may taste like ass all by itself, but it makes the other ingredients taste better. Coffee is a seasoning.

To learn the secrets of the galaxy

Frederik Pohl has another reason for going back to the moon.

Slippery slope

Bryan Fischer, of the American [Only One Kind of] Family Association, warns that Mix It Up at Lunch Day, in which students eat with people of different ethnicities, is a Homintern ploy, just like the anti-bullying movement. Tolerance is a menace, because tolerating anyone can be a gateway drug to tolerating queers.