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Within the Empire
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Proud contributions to the breakdown of good taste.
- Added on: Jul 8th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Tariq Ali and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Afghanistan and Pakistan
Came across a somewhat-dated but nevertheless kickass speech by Tariq Ali today while drinking after class. Since I didn't know either, I quote from Democracy Now, which calls him a "British-Pakistani writer, journalist, and historian, Tariq Ali spok...
Why We\'re Not Leaving Afghanistan
Our Glorious Leader destroyed the last shred of his already-dubious credibility last night, distorting history for his own already-decided purposes and failing utterly to assuage anyone of anything besides our own, most-cynical suspicions. At best, b...
Science and the Occult: A Weird History: Part I
For the past three months, I've been researching the relationship between science and the occult over the last four centuries. It has been a very complex, at-times dysfunctional relationship, and nowadays partisans for both sides would have us believ...
Fort Hood: Mr. Self-Destruct
Remember, remember, the Fifth of NovemberThe Gunpowder Treason and plotI know of no reason why the Gunpowder TreasonShould ever be forgot.--Popular verse, seventeenth century England.By now you've all know that poem, and you've all heard of Major Nid...
New Review: Diary of the Dead (2007)
Over at AYTIWS, we honor The Month of the Living Dead with:Diary of the Dead (2007)...
Godzilla the Series: An Exercise in Over-analysis (Part IX)
(Back by popular demand, it's) Episode 10: Bird of Paradise Inside the sweaty jungles of what the title card tells us is the Yucatan, a red-headed backpacker finds himself face to face with an Aztec pyramid, built into the side of a volcano. “Ther...
