Boo! - I'm scared...

Where's Jack Bauer?

They have no shame.

Whatever entity, higher being or biological process that created human beings made a number of mistakes. Chief among them is our need for sleep.

So often we have more ideas than time. Of course, this is preferable to having too much time and no idea what to do with it. But if we just didn't have to do this "sleep thing" we could get so much more accomplished. Maybe insomnia isn't such a bad thing?

The idea of sleep elimination could be a bipartisan issue. Think of all the terrorist plots Jack Bower thwarts in only 24 hours when he doesn't sleep a wink. President Rudy or Romney could torture (or interrogate using enhanced techniques) around the clock. Imagine how safe we'd all be then!   Read more…

Thanks, guys!

A latterday Eustace Tilly might well have dubbed the current New Yorker "Springtime for Wingers," and a sick spring it is, too. Besides articles on the HP bugging and pretexting implosion, it has articles on Tom Monaghan, a winger billionaire, and, most interesting, the virulent FUX TV show, 24. (Funny how conservatives get all hot and bothered about porn, because people will act out, and it coarsens the culture, yadda yadda yadda, but when 24 shows torture, and then the troops go out and do what they've seen, as the article shows through example, they remain curiously silent. Then again, to conservatives, torture is sex.)

So, read the whole thing, if you want to know just how sick the sick fucks in our ruling class are, and how people who should be doing the right thing enable them, and rationalize the knowledge of the evil they're perpetrating away. These are the passages that interested me: