I was visiting yesterday with some friends, and one of them put on the first ten minutes of Team America: World Police. (For those who haven’t seen it, the first ten minutes are the brilliant part of the movie, and after that it’s just so-so, except for Kim Jong Il’s plaintive little song halfway through.)Imagine […]

USA getting too socialist? Tea-baggers too wimpy? Here’s a place for you to go galt in style!

This Is Not a Game has garnered a great review from the Straits Times, Singapore’s foremost newspaper! While all of this is interesting, without strong characters and an engaging plot, This is Not a Game would be nothing but another bit of ‘fan fiction’ about the joys of living online. Instead, Williams’ novel is punchy, […]

Some say that Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson is a swaggering sexist lout. Some say that he’s a smug, anti-environmentalist, gas-guzzling enemy of the ozone layer. All we know is that he’s done a wonderfully savage review of the new Honda hybrid Insight . . . It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money […]