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[ by Charles Cameron ]

Okay, don’t take this one too seriously:

I’m a big fan of Frank Herbert‘s Dune, and the news that there’s now a Goodnight Dune version for kids on the web caught me off guard and carried me away…

Hat tip to Bryan Alexander of Infocult

If one of the homeless on lower Wacker Drive could become dictator….. 

I’m not sure what is being said here but as Gaddafi speaks mostly in violent, insane, drivel anyway, the remix satire remains spot on:

[ by Charles Cameron ] Zombies! Can’t live without them! Sources: Ursula Lindsey — Steve Benen

[ by Charles Cameron – a Zenpundit exclusive! ]

I was browsing the web looking for court papers from the case of Rajib Karim today, and one of the links I got took me to an Islamic Awakening page — which is to say, to an English-language, pro-jihadist forum founded by Yousef al-Khattab — where I found myself facing some unexpected advertising…

Let me get this straight. The pro-jihadist website Islamic Awakening is now receiving funds from a university that wants to train future diplomats and some schools for aspiring police officers?

If so, do these educational establishments imagine they’re recruiting from the pool of wannabe jihadists who supposedly frequent the site — or from folks already in the FBI and counter-terrorism business, who may by now be the site’s only remaining readers?

Either way, I’d say it’s a pretty subtle approach — and almost as much fun to stumble across as the Bold Christian clothing ad that I found on a previous visit to Islamic Awakening… do you remember that?

[ by Charles Cameron ]

You know, I really enjoy building my DoubleQuotes. They can be entirely frivolous, as is this one, for instance:

with its touch of gothic — a taste I share with my friend Bryan Alexander.

Or they can work like a Necker cube, offering opposite framings with which to view a single topic — in this case, video games.

They can also work like Rorschach blots — this one compares two prophecies, one from the Quran and one from a contemporary Christian prophet (if I’m not mistaken, President Obama quoted him recently) —

— but it is left up to the reader to determine the value of each…

And they can also pose fundamental questions of preference:

Has science simply replaced myth, d’you think? or is science for the facts, perhaps, and the mind — while poetry and myth are for the heart, and truth?