File 770 on the METAtropolis Hugo nomination

Pub is closed by Monty Python hand grenade — (Thanks to .)

Orbitron Apocalypto — Hod rod journalism and high weirdness. Great slice-of-culture narrative. (Thanks to .)

The Seven Nations of Political Talk — Who listens to whom in political commentary.

George Will, climate change and the disingenuousness of conservative dialectic

?otD: Badges? Badges?

3/22/2009
Body movement: 10 minute stretch in gym, 50 minute walk in meadows
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (travel day)
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville