Cause if you’re going to make a fool of yourself, you might as well do it in style…

In the words of the bipartisan Senate panel, “inadequate,” “insufficient,” and “insulting.” Certainly not the kind of person I want writing the decisions of the highest court in the land…

This is associated with my recent unreasonable post: I never thought that I would argue that NIMF was being reasonable, but apparently no one wants the raving lunatic as their spokesperson. Jack Thompson’s recent behavior has made him some enemies in unexpected places, including his former allies at the National Institute on Family and [...]

Jack Thompson, an ambulance chaser and neo-Luddite with a beef against ludology (maybe because of the homophony), offered to donate 10 grand to charity if a proposed a video game in which video game industry members are brutally murdered were produced. The game was produced several times over, by several groups, after which Thompson declared his offer to be “parody” and refused to make the donation. After several attempts to hold Thompson to his promise, the (other) reasonable people at Penny-Arcade made the donation in Thompson’s name, to the ESA Foundation, a game industry charity supporting children’s welfare. (NB: In case Mr. Thompson ever reads this, I have provided links to wikipedia for all the big words).

Assuming sinister industries get to be sinister by being good at what they do, one might expect big pharma to be good at making drugs and good at convincing people to buy them at a pretty high price. And yet, as though insisting on intellectual property laws that make their prices noncompetitive and then [...]

So some kids at NYU have decided to take things to the streets and are staging a protest on Tue, Oct. 25 Thurs, Oct.27, 7pm at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square, NYC. They plan to stand in front of the store and hand out pamphlets about how our rights are being compromised by the [...]

This guy is one step away from supervillain. Moldovian bank tellers, avert your eyes – the hypnorobber could strike at any moment! Putting his victims into a trance, he persuades them to fork over tens of thousands of dollars and then disappears, leaving nary a memory of the event behind – not a [...]

Last night I saw the second ever taping of The Colbert Report, parts of which will air when the show goes live next week. First off, it’s good to see that Comedy Central which managed to add the insult of Adam Carolla to the injury that was Colin Quinn has given up the ghost. [...]