» Video: President Obama Criticizes Huckabee and Other Republicans for Their Increasingly Offensive Rhetoric
27/07/15 23:18 from Little Green Footballs
YouTube Speaking today in Ethiopia at a press conference with prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn, President Obama had some words to say about Mike Huckabee's grotesquely offensive statement that the deal with Iran will "take the Israeli...

» Rick Perry Thinks "It Makes a Lot of Sense" for Theater-Goers to Be Armed
27/07/15 20:35 from Little Green Footballs
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com What a great idea former Gov. Rick Perry has! He points out that if everyone in a movie theater were armed to the teeth and ready to blaze away in the dark as soon as a "mentally impacted" person s...

» Rand Paul Pushing to Defund Planned Parenthood and Subvert Mitch McConnell
27/07/15 18:19 from Little Green Footballs
Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com Rand Paul likes to present himself as a civil libertarian, but his stance on reproductive rights is straight from the darkest, most regressive part of the Republican Party's war on women. He's currently push...

» Sunday Night Jam: The Bird and the Bee, "Los Angeles"
27/07/15 04:19 from Little Green Footballs
YouTube Here's another track from the great new album by The Bird and The Bee, singing the praises of the City of the Angels.

» Breitbart: Mike Huckabee "Articulates Conservative Principles" by Equating Iran Deal to the Holocaust
26/07/15 20:44 from Little Green Footballs
Juli Hansen / Shutterstock.com As Donald Trump steals all the oxygen from the Republican presidential campaign, you can expect the other candidates to get more and more extreme to try to compete with Trump's xenophobic hate speech. For e...

» The Stunning Hypocrisy of Breitbart Manbaby John Nolte
26/07/15 18:59 from Little Green Footballs
Right wing bloggers are some of the biggest crybabies in America, and over at Breitbart "News," editor John Nolte is still whining about the encounter between Ben Shapiro and helicopter pilot Zoey Tur. In case you missed the grossly insu...

» Anti-Choice Groups Work With ALEC to Require "Fetal Death Certificates" for Miscarriages, Prevent Tissue Donations
26/07/15 02:04 from Little Green Footballs
In the wake of the deceptive videos pushed out by the Orwellian "Center for Medical Progress," another fanatical anti-choice group called "Americans United for Life" is now working with ALEC to get legislation passed that would require "...

» Chuck Todd Invites Racist Paleocon Caveman Pat Buchanan to "Meet the Press"
25/07/15 20:27 from Little Green Footballs
Good grief, not Pat Buchanan again. What does it take to get this raving, Nazi-sympathizing, bigoted paleocon caveman off our television screens for good? He was fired from MSNBC for his crazed bigotry, but here comes Chuck Todd to his r...

» Podcast o' the Day: In Which Alex Jones Goes on a Rant About Bob Cesca
25/07/15 18:12 from Little Green Footballs
http://www.bobcesca.com/podcast/072315/BCS_072315.mp3 I'm so old I remember when Alex Jones was trying to cash in by exploiting left wing memes, but now he's obviously realized it's much easier to fleece the right. So now he eagerly prom...

» Image of the Week: A Global Mosaic of Pluto in True Color
25/07/15 01:06 from Little Green Footballs
Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI The colors in this image of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft aren't simulated or enhanced; they're the real deal. Very close to what a human eye would see if that person was flying past Pluto at 36,00...

» Debunking Another Right Wing Talking Point: Is the Lafayette Movie Theater Really an Official "Gun-Free Zone?"
24/07/15 21:07 from Little Green Footballs
Image via Shutterstock OK, let's dissect another ubiquitous right wing claim about the Lafayette theater shootings, shall we? If you go to any right wing site right now, you'll see them all ranting about the theater being a "gun-free zon...

» Gateway Pundit Says Lafayette Shooter Was "Obama Supporter" (Because He Wanted Obama to Wreck the US)
24/07/15 18:15 from Little Green Footballs
Jim Hoft poses with anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller You just knew Jim Hoft, the fabled Stupidest Man on the Internet, would do this, didn't you? We predicted earlier that he'd be the first out of the gate with a claim that La...

» eagles and books and odds and ends
07/03/25 21:37 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
In a wonderful little neighborhood called Larchmont, there’s a wonderful little bookshop called Chevalier’s. A friend of mine ran into Patrick Stewart there today, and when my friend mentioned that […]

» slava ukraini
01/03/25 19:23 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
Trump and Vance really put the tyrant in tantrum, didn’t they? Pathetic. Weak, cowardly, sniveling little bullies is all that they are. I understand that I’m just one person who […]

» i say ‘thing’ in this post a LOT.
27/02/25 22:32 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
A few hours ago, I finished my part of this project I’ve been developing and working on for a few years. Now, other artists are making their contributions to the […]

» a year later, a photo and memory dump from star trek the cruise vii.
26/02/25 00:38 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
This month has been such an awful year, my sense of time is … “weird” is the best I can come up with … in a way it hasn’t been […]

» W.O.R.K (N.O. Nah, No No My Daddy Don’t)
21/02/25 21:42 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
My work life is weird. Most people have a reliable schedule and know when they’ll work, and how much. They can plan out their week, their month, and their budget […]

» a couple of og star trek kids, talking about what it is like to be the og star trek kids
09/02/25 20:42 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
Cirroc Lofton played Jake Sisko on Deep Space Nine. I played Wesley Crusher on The Next Generation. And before this week, he and I never talked about it, which is […]

» “that’s the picard maneuver. you can’t do that.”
04/02/25 21:58 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
There’s a post in r/startrek collecting some of the more memorable stories we have told, and fans have remembered, over the decades. I added one of my own, which I […]

» ur fascism by umberto eco
28/01/25 21:20 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
Four years ago, I recorded and released narrations of short material that I pulled from the public domain. I did my best to release one a week, as an experiment. […]

» i did some great work on some audiobooks that are about to be released, and i want you to know about them.
22/01/25 20:19 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
I closed out last year with two straight months of audiobook work on a number of projects I am so thrilled to be part of. One of them was just […]

» squirrel appreciation day is a thing, i guess?
21/01/25 22:09 from WIL WHEATON dot NET: Where is my mind?
Last Spring, I entered into a pact with the local squirrels: I would give them peanuts and treats from my kitchen, and they would leave my garden alone. As the […]

» Loose Links
08/03/25 18:16 from The Doc Searls Weblog
The big and scary news about the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, is that she died first, and suddenly, of hantavirus, which kills up to half the people it infects—often quickly.  It’s bad shit—or from bad shit: ...

» Talking Right
08/03/25 16:21 from The Doc Searls Weblog
Great speech by David Brooks at a recent ARC conference in London. I read here that he was booed and heckled, but in the video one only sees smiles, warmth, and occasional laughs (e.g. to “At Chicago I had a double major in history...

» Bookings
08/03/25 15:58 from The Doc Searls Weblog
Even in a small city such as Bloomington, one can make fun discoveries all the time. Yesterday, for example, I discovered Redbud Books, which had a table set up to sell books from Cory Doctorow's increasingly vast oeuvre while the ma...

» It’s about time. And space.
07/03/25 20:25 from The Doc Searls Weblog
This informative video by @lainaminute (L.A. in a Minute) on Instagram expands on something I anticipated when I shot this photo album of the KSPN/710 transmitter site at 12775 Burbank Boulevard almost four years ago: that the land under...

» First Drafting
07/03/25 16:07 from The Doc Searls Weblog
Writing with Wordland is like Tweeting, but on my personal press (this blog) instead of Elon's. Or any other giant's. As a difference in kind, it's absolute.

» Radio’s Death Knells
07/03/25 01:08 from The Doc Searls Weblog
The radio station known since 1935 as KSFO, “The Sound of the City,” was a landmark at 560 on the Bay Area radio dial for most of the last century.  Other landmarks were KGO/810, KCBS/740, KFRC/610, and KNBR/680. KFRC went aw...

» Monday Monday
03/03/25 18:51 from The Doc Searls Weblog
Naming today's tab dump after one of The Mamas and The Papas best songs. Here is a lipsync'd video on YouTube. Dig the old-skool stereo. Where I explained customer-to-company AI agent-to-AI agent interaction (you know, markets as...

» Giving Away Tabs
02/03/25 22:02 from The Doc Searls Weblog
If I share the link to one of my open tabs and close it, the reader gets a new tab when they click on the link, no? So, in that case I'm giving away tabs, seems to me on a Sunday afternoon. I don't have Hulu, and I don't have...

» Total News
01/03/25 16:44 from The Doc Searls Weblog
27th in the News Commons series Nearly everything I’ve been writing in the News Commons series has come out of breakfasts Joyce and I have enjoyed with Dave Askins at the Uptown Cafe in Bloomington, Indiana. (A tech perspective: Th...

» Blogging like it’s 1999
28/02/25 14:28 from The Doc Searls Weblog
Testing Wordland, about which Dave says more here. This is my second blog, and my first WordPress one. It launched in 2007. My first blog is this one, which (courtesy of Dave) started in the last year of the prior millennium. I had hair ...