The Daily Dorkmonger

I like this headline from The Huffington Post: "Obama Responds To Gay Anger: You'll Be Happy In The End." Haha. Happy Endings ...

In the aftermath of the election in Iran, Twitter emerged as the most powerful way for Iranians to disseminate information and organize pro...

Michael Jackson died today . A lot will be said about his unusual life and transformations, but all I want to replay right now is this littl...

First he was lost and now he is found. This new Mark Sanford show is better than that old Jon & Kate crap . When the South Carolina gove...

Well, the above comic shows one way to join the war on drugs. I wonder if it would work as a defense in court? "I was just smoking it o...

In case you haven't heard, there was a disputed election in Iran . I won't pretend to be an expert because that's just stupid. ...

Religious extremism and parody -- I've previously commented how I can't tell the two apart. Between Pterosaur Hunting , funny museu...

So this is where we're at. An 88-year-old white supremacist with a rifle walked into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today a...

I'm reading this NY Times article on blogging and finding myself getting more and more irritated. Their premise is that bloggers expect...

(Image from Spamusement !) I'm not dead. Let's just say it's been a good week for video games and a bad week for blogging. But I...

Where do people feel the most positive about their lives? Denmark Finland Netherlands Sweden Ireland Canada Switzerland New Zealand Norway ...

( YouTube video ) In his monologue tonight, Bill Maher linked the banking failure, health care crisis, obesity epidemic, prison population, ...

When are hugs okay, and when are they just plain awkward? According to the NY Times , today's teenagers never give that question a singl...

"This isn't paradise and you know it. The people here are starving and dying. The whole world uses Somalia as a dumping ground for ...

"When they see the American government caught up in arguments about interrogations, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for —...

I admit I'm not a big fan of The View, but every once in a while Whoopi Goldberg makes the show worthwhile like this morning when she ca...

I cringe every time I hear the word "teabag" now. I thought that, in time, I would recover, but apparently the Republicans want to...

The imminent threat of a terrorist attack was Dick Cheney's justification for torture. Terrorists are poised to set off dirty bombs and ...

The above picture is one of eleven cover sheets featured in the GQ article And He Shall be Judged , a damning exposé on former defense secr...

I was always curious about A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, but never curious enough to spend my own money or time on the book. In...