John of AmericaBlog and Redd of firedoglake, two blogs frequently quoted here, at a gathering in San Francisco.

Ah, Joe Scarborough. He's a good little Republican in the bottom of his black little heart, but for a couple of years now he's been...

So it seems the Today Show found another person willing to defend the ports deal. It was George Bush's 19-year-old nephew. Now, putting...

Your beauty hides in your intellingence. Nothing wrong with being a little smarter and quick witted than the others around you. Let's fa...

The greatest lead paragraph to a movie review ever, or, " Roger Ebert makes me laugh with joy," number 325 in a series. During th...

On "The Daily Show" last night the guest was a man named Bruce Bartlett, the author of "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupt...

There's a fella named Joseph DuRocher. He was for 20 years the elected Public Defender of Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit, covering Ora...

That's what I thought when I saw this picture yesterday, anyway. I thought about posting here to that effect but, in a moment of weakn...

NPR's Fresh Air has an interesting interview with James Burrows , "the dean of sitcom directing." Burrows has directed hundred...

The woman who really deserves our sympathy is former Reagan speechwriter (and recurrent fawner over his legacy) Peggy Noonan. You see, it se...

I've just seen one of the creepier films of my life. It's called The Dress and it was made in the Netherlands about 10 years ago. T...

The poor dear.

Bob Black recommends an article at Slate.com which he says basically argues (1) That the South Dakota law is just the latest in the back-and...

Spring break, apparently, not that good for women .

I don't want to single anybody out, but I get the idea there are one or two of you who think Roberts', and then Alito's, confirm...

Reviews of Stewart's performance seem to be truly mixed from what I've seen. Tom Shales apparently actively disliked him (but Tom u...

Via firedoglake .

Working from notes hastily typed during commercial breaks... Jon Stewart's opening monologue. Good, not great. Hurt by the awkward stagi...

...along comes Vanna White .