Good Morning Sinners
How to Shut Down Internets
After shutting the internet down, most megalomaniac dictators believe they will still be around to turn it back on. They take their future for granted, and believe they only need to hide the corpses it will be built on.
An Idiot's Guide to Time
We live in a world where time only flows downstream and the past is an unscalable glacier wall. We will hit the bottom of the spiral long before we ever solve the problem of rescuing love or speaking unsaid goodbyes.
Delete Everything Now
We give up our privacy, as they say, for candy bars. The problem is that the thing we give our information to today is not necessarily the thing that will have it tomorrow.
Sandy and the Broken Machine
Global warming isn't a joke or a trick, it's the new future, a thousand miles wide and coming for us at a hundred miles an hour.
My Last Column About the Presidential Election (Really)
You may gather that I don't consider the 2012 election itself much of a story, and you'd be right. It'll appear to be tight, but it really won't be. Here's my prediction.
Jimmy Savile and the Price of Silence
Sir Jimmy Savile was a radio DJ, TV personality, and charity worker, raising millions for the children's ward at Stoke Mandeville hospital. He's also a necro-pedo, who did his deeds for years because nobody wanted to pay the price of outing him.
The Valley of Expectations
Human spaceflight may be dead, but the future's still death from above. Ever look up and notice how much the American Space Shuttle resembles some styles of drone? That happened when we weren’t looking.
Good Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis - The Trail of Blood on the Floor
During the first presidential debate, Obama looked like a man who was really ready to not be president any more. Maybe the weight of killing for a living is finally getting to him.
Your God Is Not Strong
If there were a god, and it felt mortal pain at the sin of blasphemy, it would be a vain and weak creature, unworthy of sympathy, let alone worship. When I wipe shit on the face of your god, I’m not doing it to your god—I’m doing it to you.
The Death of Fun in Politics
It is a miserable indictment that not only do our current politicians lack the courage to do sweeping good works, but that they also fail to have the black spine for acts of authentic pure fucking evil.
Bringing the Future Back from the Dead
It’s easy to believe science fiction’s dead. But it turns out it’s alive, and being made in the offices of people who actually build the near future for a living. Which, like the best science fiction, is something you wouldn’t necessarily have...
Print Your Own Penis
Somewhere, in some gilded bunker of the 1 percent, a very old, very rich man is laying plans to print himself a new cock. Perhaps one with cameras in it. And maybe a gun.