All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy l...
Many of you who have excess U.S. currency to get rid of have been trying to kill two birds with one stone by using old billions as bathroom tissue. While creative, this approach has two drawbacks: 1)...
Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an assertion that he, the nerd, does not already know the information bein...
When you say ‘plugged it in,’ could you please tell me everything you plugged into it? Peter had now dropped, improbably, into a polite, clinical mode, like a customer service rep in a Bangalore cubic...
Until that time, we have more than enough people to create healthy non-inbred children just by the usual process of fucking each other.
Today’s liturgy was something to do with developments in finite group theorics that had taken place about thirteen hundred years ago and that had caused their originator, Saunt Bly, to be Thrown Back...
These are one-time pads.
Therapies administered included but were not limited to: turning things off, then on again; picking them up a couple of inches and then dropping them; turning off nonessential appliances in this and o...
The social structure of any nation-state is ultimately determined by its security arrangements.
The revolution proceeded routinely and according to the rules of networked 21st-century protest.
The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this since he had heard that Google Earth in turn was based on an idea fro...
The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.
The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves.
The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world.And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.
That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it’s almost funny, Arsibalt observed.
SouthernCalifornia doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.Not enough roads for the number of people. Fairlanes, Inc. is laying new onesall the time. Have to bulldoze lots o...
Since the military part of town could not tolerate disarray and the commercial part found it unprofitable, all of the chaos had been pushed into the old town, which had become the kingdom of broken pl...
Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, USMC, pours some beans into the grinder and starts to belabor the crank. A black flurry begins to accumulate in the coffeepot below. He has learned to make this stuff the Swedi...
Scholars of economic history have worked up numbers suggesting that Britain spent more on maintaining its empire than it gained from exploiting it.
One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in the society, t...