Plunderbund

In an interesting intellectual exercise, Matthew White imagined how North America would have looked if separatist movements had succeeded rather than failed in the history of North America… starting with a 1787 fire killing many of the Constitutional Convention. Instead of 3 countries, we could have had 19. StrangeMaps has the tale… and […]

The other day I pointed out the Catholic League’s overreaction to a poster for a gay pride festival that took it’s inspiration from da Vinci’s “Last Supper”. Lisa Renee mentioned in the comments that she found it insulting (perfectly valid for her to feel that way) and that it ‘mocked’ Christianity.
I wanted to point […]

This is a sneak preview of tonight’s PB Late Night Theater entry. This is a clever, creative homemade video for Daft Punk’s song “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.” It starts a bit slow (and silly), but stick with it. By the end, this might make your top ten list of coolest things you’ve […]

Who would dare say such a thing? Why, only Captain America, that’s who.

Go read the context at the above link - it does a tremendous job explaining exactly why Captain America would say what he said, and how he got to that place. Throw in the fact that ultra-patriot and WWII hero Captain […]

Man, I love Christianists. Those guys know how to have a good time.
On criticism of the books from Christians in Britain and the United States:
“I had one letter from a vicar in England — this is the difference — saying would I please not put Christmas trees at Hogwarts as it was clearly a […]

This magazine cover (courtesy The Onion) gave me quite a chuckle…

Silent Beats, a USC student film project:

Let’s not make an ASS out of U and ME.