My pal Corey has shamed me with his generosity. He went and sent me that book on Terry Gilliam & The Brothers Grimm that I posted about...

There's a bit of a debate going on in the blogs about just how much service in the military does or does not add to the "electabili...

Digby has a short but good post making the point that if there's nothing wrong with the NSA spying, how come they kept it secret for so...

Krugman has a heck of a column laying out just how much of an incompetent Bush has been revealed to be in the past year. On a scale undreamt...

Ultimate Wingnut Contest . Your nominees are: John "Hindrocket" Hindrocket Michelle Malkin Ann Coulter Pastor J. Grant Swank, Jr. ...

As you may have heard, among the revelations in the recent NSA scandal is that they've been inserting "cookies" on computers t...

I missed this somehow, but a couple of weeks ago the AFI (American Film Institute) announced their selections for movies and TV programs of ...

Shakespeare's Sister wants to know: Recently, rewatching Sideways, I was thinking that few directors manage to capture what life really...

The Washington Post has a story about how damnit, George Bush wants his big stage back. In AmericaBlog , Joe observes how you can kind of t...

Know anyone who supports the sacrifice of personal freedom for security from terrorism? You might want to invite them to sign this pledge a...

Via Jane Hamsher at firedoglake , we find more evidence for my growing theory that this president is going to be taken down not by the ...

Winners of the first annual Kippie Awards for Distinguished Wingnuttery : Chickenhawk of the Year Award : Jonah Goldberg. This blog supporte...

...but ads like this make me think maybe I should be. Via AmericaBlog : The ACLU ran the following advertisement in the December 29, 2005 ...

A new meme : Four jobs you got fired from, or quit under a cloud: Only two: Bookstore and video store clark. Four places you've lived th...

Last year I wrote, in a post on the old blog about a young Republican man kicking a female protestor while she was being held on the ground...

Today is Stan Lee's birthday; Mark Evanier has a short birthday greeting and an anecdote about how he didn't run Lee over with his c...

In a firedoglake entry, ReddHedd lays out the legal ramifications of the domestic spying scandal. Not so much for the government....but for...

In Feministing , we learn that the Abstinence Clearinghouse, which, as it sounds, is a group that promotes saving sex for marriage, has come...

Alexander Cockburn via Egalia : But who would do the impeaching? The Democrats have lost as much credibility as the President and the Republ...

Sorry to hear this afternoon of the death of actor Vincent Schiavelli . He was one of those "that guy" character actors who turns...