Now more than ever

Even I, cynic that I am, am mind-boggled by this .

The Norwegians have recently discovered what the Jews have known for centuries--that there is a link between survival and humor. Andrea sent...

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virt...

While I've always gotten a chuckle out of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, the fact that all of the entries are made up takes some of the fun...

Newt Gingrich to James Dobson, explaining why it wasn't hypocritical of him to be gunning for Clinton even as he was shtupping some chi...

While I tend to think of YouTube as that great site that brings us classics like this , it is, apparently , ground zero for a virtual "...

One of my coworkers here also lived in Wisconsin for many years. She just visited there over the holidays and brought back this clipping fro...

This is kind of interesting. Slate paired up with a market research group to graphically display the believability of Bush's Wednesday ...

A big congratulations to my friends Marc and Christy who just had a baby yesterday. Ollie is already blogging , precotious cuss.

Today marks the 230th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense , Wonkette reminds us. Of course, we love Tom Paine...

Those who know me, know that my cat is a cat only a mother can love, really. He's obese, asthmatic, and suffers from clinical depression...

Today is my dad's yarzheit . He's been gone twenty years--rather incredible. I was missing him tonight. I lit my memorial candle and...

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...