Ok, back to feeling bad for Tennessee. Why? Because that disaster is now being called almost 50 times worse than the Exxon Valdez .

Remember yesterday when I posted oddly sympathetic thoughts (for me) about some residents of Tennessee? You knew that wasn't going to si...

As one or two of you probably know, I dreamed about Jennifer Aniston recently. Clearly, showing up in my dreams is good luck* because her la...

...as I read this item , I found myself reminded of Nik Kershaw's song "Roses"...the post maybe best read listening to it: Eve...

Bubble (wrap) Calendar !

Somewhat puzzlingly, I've ended up on the newsletter mailing list for Amy Ephron's One For the Table site and now I've gotten a...

Eartha Kitt died . So here's a little three-part tribute. First, this is a teaser trailer from The Emperor's New Groove , a film I...

It will never receive a proper DVD release, and I think (even) if I showed it to my nephew, who loves Star Wars , he would burn his Star War...

Harold Pinter, dead at 78 .

“Eye Of A Needle,” The Art Of Noise. This is a live version. The original is a rather obviously “satiric” look at the commercialization of ...

Speaking of The West Wing , here's the penultimate scene from the season two Christmas episode, Noël , one of the best of the series. If...

Stockard Channing is a former star of The West Wing , for which she won an Emmy, and an Academy Award-nominated actress who's been in su...

This is "Little Bit Of Snow" by Howard Jones. All I want to say about this acoustic (basically just Howard singing and playing pi...

Say...who remembers Tammy Lynn Michaels? She's the partner of Melissa Etheridge. Michaels ( and Etheridge) are now defending Rick Warre...

I wonder where those men would've gotten the idea that being a lesbian made this woman less than human? Oh wait. Now that I think of it...

Alec Baldwin Posted in Huffpo: The Inauguration Cannot Come Quickly Enough And somewhere, Kim Basinger is saying "And if anyone knows a...

I've got nothing else to say except that this brings tears to my eyes. A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, tau...

Via TPM Election Central, Joe Biden defends the selection of Rick Warren: Barack Obama said you've got to reach out. You've got to ...

"If the president does it, it's not illegal.” Richard Nixon to David Frost, 1977? Neh-eh. Dick Cheney, to Fox's Chris Wallace. ...

Mike Huckabee says it's ridiculous for people to be upset at Rick Warren. Oh, there you go. Being called ridiculous by Mike Huckabee. M...