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Bruce Springsteen misreads the national mood in his halftime performance. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine A desperately stupid article about the Super Bowl halftime show (tags: politics stupid society sports music) PHD Comics: Not a good sign "I should be done in a year..." (tags: academia…
james_nicoll: Please plug the holes in my ignorance "China has its Four Great Classical Novels: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber. My impression, gained from minutes and minutes of research, is these are influential and the sort of thing…
slacktivist: Killing in the name of "In 1973, most evangelicals regarded opposition to abortion as a Catholic Thing -- and therefore vaguely suspect, as though it might lead to praying to Mary or something. But throughout the 1970s and into the '80s, that changed. The person most responsible for…
How Much is a Dragon Worth? - Michael Noer - Backslash - Forbes "To silence the skepticism and to give fans of the list some idea of just how deep the rabbit hole goes, I've decided to flash a little bit of imaginary ankle and walk through a typical Fictional 15 investigation, in this case of…

You called that Pre-Ninja Program article silly?

I hereby sentence you to service on your college's curriculum committee for three years.

That wasn't silly, it was true!

By CCPhysicist (not verified) on 23 Apr 2008 #permalink