Fearful Symmetries

Last summer I delved into the Rwandan genocide by reading a couple books and watching a documentary. I began by reading We Wish to Inform Y...

I've recently had the opportunity to try out a couple imported products. The first is some German shower gel that I purchased in Chicago...

Today is supposedly D-Day for the DeGette-Castle bill in the House of Representatives. The bill, HR 3, will expand federal funding to stem c...

According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Bush lackeys are injecting faith into the National Park Service. From PEER :...

Sam Harris has a new essay up at the new Washington Post site, On Faith, called "Selfless Consciousness Without Faith" .

9 January. J.T.Whitney's Beer School. 6pm. $10/person includes all sampling for the session. http://www.jtwhitneys.com 18 January. ...

LOST returns from its hiatus next month on the 7th. ABC has been releasing a series of "LOST Moments" - 30 second clips from upcom...

Tori Spelling is starring in Cthulhu . The trailer is...is...well, watch it for yourself. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. This...

Dag gum! There's a story in the new Isthmus about how Capital Newspapers is planning on launching a new free weekly. Dane101 has the det...

UW Journalism prof Deborah Plum recently had an op-ed piece in the New York Times called "Ghosts in the Machine" . She talks about...

Looking at the drawing of the New Glarus Brewing Company's expansion , I had a flashback to my childhood as I spent much of it in a Germ...

UW professor Ronald Numbers is interview at Salon today about the anti-evolution movement.

With the first day of 2007 upon us, I wanted to note some things to which we can look forward to in this new year. And so, in no particular ...

"Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat" is a short from Universal Pictures that was released on 28 March 1941. It is also the name of a...

Sam Harris has a couple new articles up: "10 myths -- and 10 truths -- about atheism" "God’s Enemies Are More Honest Than Hi...

Dungeons & Dragons was created by Cheeseheads back in the 1970s and thusly were role-playing games born. You can learn all about the gen...

Somewhere in this country there's a group of SCA members drinking mead and listening to New Dark Ages , the first full-length effort by ...

James Brown has died .

I've recently started writing a couple columns up at Dane101.com : Memo From the (Other) Beer Desk and Liquor Locker Letters. Neither of...

Last Friday, I met The Dulcinea and her kids at the Barnes & Noble on the west side right after work. We needed to blow some time before...