Now more than ever

I just got back yesterday from a trip to upstate New York where I was connection-less. So now I'm catching up. I was staying at my siste...

Shakespeare's Sister calls our attention to this gem from shrub's Saturday radio address : "[A]ll Americans can take pride in ...

It seems John Bolton is back on the job market.

In yet another demonstration of the US's astounding ability to back the wrong horse, Daniel Ortega was elected president of Nicaragua th...

Via After School Snack comes the video of the day .

Garrison Keillor's piece for the Chicago Tribune yesterday. This paragraph almost made me cry: People still care deeply about our govern...

The Dems have the Senate. It's official. Allen conceded . My favorite part of the article is this bit: Allen was comfortably ahead in po...

From SL comes this collection of Rummy classics. Ah the passing of an era: "As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we kn...

Complete election results including ballot measures are here .

I'm really thinking someone needs to rerecord National Brotherhood Week with an "everyone hates the queers" slant. The dems w...

The Onion put it best back in February: "We are entirely capable of bungling this opportunity to regain control of the House and Senat...

Has anyone else noticed that Bush pronounces "I-DE-Ology" the same way some people pronounce "eye-talian"? And let me sa...

Rumsfeld is resigning. If I still drank you better believe I'd be pouring out a glass of champagne right about now. The only better new...

Okay, I'm back. I thought for a while there about posting a "Blog Dark" notice like they do in theaters when there's nothi...

I have been accused of "thinking too much" on more than one occasion, and without taking on the inherent value judgment of such a ...

Okay, Ed sent me the link for the Forbes article on marriage and prostitution and it appears that Salon quoted Noer out of context. The sub...

Colin sent me a copy of this Salon.com story. Normally I don't link to salon articles because of the extended hassle to actually read a...

I know I've been living under a rock, but I only just heard of Gunter Grass' confession that he was a Waffen SS member as a teen. Y...

My biopsy results came back negative. I've never been so happy to fail a test in my life.

Here's something to entertain yourself with for at least a few minutes at work--make your own McDonalds sign. And while you're ther...