Okay. As you may or may not have heard, a hobby horse that the Fox folk like John Gibson and especially Bill O'Reilly are riding once ag...

Update: At Daily Kos, Armando separates the conservatives into two groups, as a shepard separates the sheep from the goats. Honest and dis...

"Staying the course" may make a good sound bite, but it can be disastrous for strategy. Several of Hitler's generals told him ...

There are some numbers. The History News Network at George Mason University has just polled historians informally on the Bush record. Four h...

"The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogeth...

So, we know about how the Christian Right has been trying to force religion into our classrooms as so-called "science." My stand r...

You scored as Mermaid . Mermaid: Mermaids are also known as Sirens. These creatures were beautiful women who tricked sailors into becoming c...

Via Daily Kos : Marshall Wittmann, a former Republican political strategist now with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, said Pelosi...

I give you Michael Mangia: The Official Site . Be sure to click on the picture, you don't want to miss the second photo of Mr. Mangia s...

I haven't said anything about the Jack Abramoff case, which other blogs are circling like lions before a kill, because I didn't thin...

Via Tapped , we find that John Derbyshire of the conservative National Review's The Corner has been holding forth on just what kind of w...

That's right, folks. South Africa is now more progressive on civil and human rights than we are. Everybody say I...I...I...ain't ...

From Reuters : "Those Democratic congressional leaders who try to suggest that we don't have a plan are deeply irresponsible,"...

This reminds me of the time I saw him cite both the O.J. Simpson case and Othello as proof that mixed marriages never work. During a Novembe...

Well, this is just unfortunate. You know what's worse than white, affluent suburban kids trying to front like they're hip-hop to in...

Courtesy of JeopardyGirl's blog . The Town Where You Were Born: The Town Where You Live Now: Your Name: (Dig that clock in the backgroun...

I knew I should have gone to college...read this blog post when you need a laugh .

"Midshipmen catch naps as they wait for more than an hour for U.S. President George W. Bush to deliver an address on the war in Iraq at...

Like Mark , I was sorry to see last night that the actress Wendie Jo Sperber had died. Like most people, it seems, I remember her best as a...

...to try to get you to recognize "Veronica Mars". If you've been reading this blog and/or my old one for any amount of time, ...