Republican plans for health care reform have finally been revealed!Hoyer-Larson Bill: All 45 million uninsured Americans would be guaranteed medical care, all of it provided by Dr. Tom Janicak of Houston, TXGriffith-Cantor Bill: Low-income families would be allowed to huddle outside hospital windows in the cold and look at wealthier families receiving care.[via Janice]

Oh to be in England now that This Is Not a Game is there!Yes! The British paperback of TINAG is now available!

Renowned atmospheric physicist Charles B. Moore passed away on Wednesday. Though his career was chock-a-block with scientific accomplishment, he is best known for something that didn’t actually happen.Let me explain.Dr. Moore was a pioneer in the use of large polyethylene balloons, or aerostats. On June 4, 1947, one of Dr. Moore’s Project Mogul aerostats crashed […]

I got a chance to see a sneak preview of Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, and now I’m thinking about how franchises have got detached from the source of their inspiration.It certainly happened with Sherlock Holmes. Robert Downey played a character who shared a name and an occupation with his progenitor, but little else. There were […]