Well, another cycle of (s)election hysteria has come and gone in the disUnited States of Amerikkka, Inc., and, as you well know, everything in the world has transformed overnight. Now that the Demopublicans are in control of the House and the Republicrats have kept...

So surely you've heard that 2001: A Space Odyssey's evil A.I. super-computer HAL is a thinly veiled reference to IBM, right? You know, change each letter in "HAL" to the next one in the alphabet? Well, what do you get when you change each letter in the word "MOB" to...

"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The Shadow knows!" Perhaps you're old enough to remember this tag line from the 1930s radio dramatization of The Shadow. Or perhaps, like me, you spent your childhood listening to "Those Old Radio Shows" on...