Month: August 2007

Gap-minder gives a graphic illustration of what has happened.

A new drug-test.

Another cultural landmark.

Rudy lays down the fundraising gauntlet.

"Iraq is not a democracy."

A look at the science that may one day make this a reality. Pharyngula muses:

It sounds feasible to me. Zygotes are aggressive little parasites that will implant just about anywhere in the coelom — it’s why ectopic pregnancies are a serious problem — so all we need to do there is culture a bit of highly vascularized tissue in the male abdomen that will serve as a secure home for a few months. We’ll have to play some endocrine games, too, which may effect his love life but will also prepare him to lactate post-partum. There’s the minor anatomical problem that the vagina is a unique tissue, and no, the urethra is not homologous or analogous (fortunately; we wouldn’t want to have to push an 8 pound baby through the penis, even if female hyenas can manage it) — but that’s what c-sections are for. Given money, time, and a few weird volunteers, it could be done.

That strange swooping sound you hear is Ramesh Ponnuru fainting.

A reader writes:

You and bloggy "Presurfer" have been had by a creative movie promotional. This is a viral promotion for the upcoming "Shoot ‘Em Up". Thus the link to the movie with a fake testimonial and the copyright at the bottom of the site.

The film opens September 7th. Just goes to show you, if it’s unreal it probably is. And yes…Monica Bellucci is smoking hot regardless of sexual orientation.

Yang Jianli (R), a Chinese political dissident who has returned to the U.S. recently after he was accused spying for Taiwan and was detained for five years by the Chinese government, speaks as his wife Christina Fu (L) wipes tears during a news conference August 21, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Yang spoke the first time publicly since his release from China. By Alex Wong/Getty Images.

Larison responds to an Yglesias post:

There is nothing particularly ”far left” about repudiating and deploring wars of aggression, which seem to me to be the kind of war that Greenwald is rejecting … Greenwald is saying that wanton aggression is not the norm, and wars of self-defense and national security are.  …He says simply that the default condition for the use of force for most states is self-defense, which seems pretty clearly true.

"No capes!" "The Incredibles."