" Two weeks ago while visiting a friend who covers conflict in South America I was privy to a conversation between two experienced conflict journalists, each with more than a decade of experience. One was considering going to Syria. What followed was a very intense conversation that focused on logistics, fixers, money, outlets, and equipment. And this was a guy who has been published everywhere and regularly been caught in heavy gun battles between opposing forces. Nothing was taken lightly. Every potential setback was weighted.

" Citizen journalists have contributed many stories of value, especially with the Occupy movement. But journalism is still a skill. Grainy iphone footage does not a journalist make. And Syria is NOT an occupy protest. Your failure to prepare can lead to other people getting killed. Even if you are prepared, it can lead to people being killed. 13 Syrians were killed trying to help get Paul Conroy out of Syria. "

I had no idea marketing was a LARP

If all goes according to plan, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will make a cameo this Sunday on “The Simpsons,” and soon after he will begin hosting a television show on a Russian state-owned network called RT.

Kelly calls it "a bastard hybrid of singularitarian transhumanism, intelligent design institutes, and Time Cube" and I can't improve on that.

Happeh Theory is about the interplay of forces within the human body, and how they affect the health, the physical behavior, the mental behavior, and the personality of a human being. (It is also 581% insane. -- Ed.)

"Joe six-pack has a sense something is happening," Pastor Hitchcock said at the prophecy meeting. "You don't have to be politically astute."

Dr. Judith Reisman, an internationally-recognized author, scientist, and educator specializing in sexual perversion, says the growing appetite for child pornography corresponds to the "pornographic, erototoxic epidemic.”

Old school cranks insist that Islamist terror is really Communism still.

suicide prevention via rick warren and creationism. yeah.

"The Cardinal, who is one of the highest ranking American bishops at the Vatican, said that for the Church, the years of Obama’s presidency will be comparable with Jesus’ Agony in the Garden."

"We, black American citizens of the United States of America and of the National Black Republican Association, do hereby declare that our fellow white American citizens are now, henceforth and forever more free of White Guilt."

wacky spiritual warfare groups are trying to take over the government. also, they're wacky.

The rind around the nation is sorta not-free. Great.

postapocalyptoriffic t-shirt design!

Palin's Churches and the Third Wave. The most unpleasant of the unpleasant dominionist ideas in the unpleasant pentecostal wing of unpleasantly stupid American christianity.

beat poetry generator

WikipediaClassAction.com is currently gathering complaints from the entire Internet community, including individuals, corporations, partnerships, etc., who believe that they have been exposed to uninteresting stories and or who have been or are the subjec

Meet the enemy: MySpace, Facebook, the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Wikipedia, Bertrand Russell's "intellectual sodomizing", and the entire blogosphere.

o these wicken people

some cranks are cranky enough that their crank is hard to figure out

bad cranky religious sites always have the same artwork

Yet another cranktastic religion from someone who mixed Asimov's "Foundation" and some cheap whiskey.

YOU CAN KISS MY ASS AND BARK AT THE HOLE