When people have their minds changed they remember having _always_ had the new position...

Which was more original when I first encountered it, but still well worth reading 11 years later.

"I do not like you, John McCain. My feeling has nothing to do with issues. It has to do with common courtesy. During the debate, you refused to look Barack Obama in the eye. Indeed, you refused to look at him at all. Even when the two of you shook hands at the start, you used your eyes only to locate his hand, and then gazed past him as you shook it."

An analysis of the LJ purge

The ten steps that any country can take to make it a fascist state. And how the US has taken them.

Twenty things that should be improved about computer games

Register article on Fiona Apple's third album, and why Sony music won't release it, what this says about the music industry and why the digital age should have made this all redundant