“Little Evolta will face challenges beyond any it has seen,” said Ramada. “We can only hope it has the resources to overcome them.” “Evolta’s height is just one-tenth that of a grown man,” said Tomotaka Takahashi, who created the robot. “So we figured it would take ten times longer than a man to do the [...]

After twenty hours of fighting off a sniping attack on the US Embassy in Kabul, and killing all ten of the attackers, NATO forces opened fire again. This time, it was on Twitter. “Re: Taliban pussy on #Kabul attack: alll u ppl are fucken retarded” said the Twitter feed @ISAFmedia, usually a subdued stream of [...]

The U.S. today approved a UN Security Council resolution granting the Taliban taxicab franchises in ten cities in Western Europe and the United States. “It will keep them busy,” said a Western diplomatic source who refused to be identified for fear of reprisals from taxi drivers who know where they’re going. “It’ll give them presence [...]

America’s short attention span has been well noted. Today’s Dire Events line tonight’s birdcage and are replaced by tomorrow’s Brainless Trivia. And we sail on into Whatever. We’re so inundated with disconnection and dissociation we can’t possibly file it where we can find it, and so we lapse into short-term memory loss. Well, the zen [...]

To celebrate the season, the Republicans will hold their third Mass Debate of this election tonight at 8. As before, the candidate-hopefuls will arrive together, driven directly onstage in a Morris Mini. Each question will be directed to a particular candidate. However, there are rule changes in the debate itself. The addressed candidate will have [...]