Kipple drives out nonkipple

As kipple is unavoidable and increasingly a part of my interactions with reality, actual or virtual, I thought it high time to add a Kipple category to this blog to at least document this disease, this dis-ease. Kipple is a word invented by the science fiction author Philip K. Dick for a concept similar to [...]

London terrorist bombings

Terrorists have struck again, this time in downtown London. This particular picture that was just on cnn.com seems to capture the claustrophobic horror of what those poor people on one of the bombed subway trains must have gone through in the aftermath: