Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

“Russian fishermen catch squeaking alien and eat it”

Is there a better newspaper than pravda.ru? It’s the newspaper implied by the terminological similarity between the Weekly World News and People’s Weekly Word, a combination of flagrant falsehood and Stalinist propaganda. Case in point:

Ufologists and scientists were greatly disappointed when they found out that the fishermen had eaten the monster. They said that they were not scared of the creature so they decided to use it as food. One of the men said that it was the most delicious dish he had ever eaten

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Adam asks, “what happened to Hardt and Negri?” An interesting question; the current lack of interest in them is rather surprising, given that Empire was and is pretty much entirely correct. I was reminded of this by a post on ads without products, in which: When it gets to the stuff that lies outside of […]

The internet didn’t kill newspapers; newspapers killed newspapers

I didn’t include American newspaper readers in my earlier credulity index because, hilariously, American newspaper readers are not merely credulous, but adulatory. Hence their mistaken belief that there’s something still alive for the internet to kill. On the contrary; if the internet can destroy the rotting corpse that gives off the kind of stench embodied […]

Bureaucracy and biopolitics

The English people today are addicted to the rhythms of their own industrial and imperial valediction: they like saying goodbye to the past, and saying goodbye to the past is the single biggest thing they can’t say goodbye to. So wrote Andrew O’Hagan in the Guardian last weekend, and he was accurate at least as […]