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So it seems that I missed the pleasure of Jon Stewart appearing on the political debate show Crossfire . I guess he's been going the nex...

There's no explaining the appeal of these silly photographs. I strongly recommend clicking through a few pages of them; they grow on yo...

Kira April points us to another article about a Sy Hersch talk. In the evening's most emotional moment, Hersh talked about a call ...

For $10k you can buy a brand new Gypsy vardo ! I want to drop out of society right now.

Brad DeLong chronicles how a review of The Motorcycle Diaries turned into a blogistan symposium on the nature of heroism in The Concept of ...

Digby has an amazing post about the implications of Bush v. Gore that I found through mighty Atrios . Most striking for me, he talks ab...

The latest polls' count of electoral votes, as of today : Kerry 280, Bush 254.

They say these come in threes, so I'm dreading losing the third. Jacques Derrida 1930-2004 father of deconstruction Like many Ameri...

Look what I found on Wikipedia ! [John] Kerry's paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn) ... [married] ... Ida (née L...

Big Media Matt once again sum up nicely something that's hard to articulate, throwing in a delicious irony for good measure. How do ...

Juan Cole illustrates how bad things are in Iraq by mapping the equivalent onto the US. What would America look like if it were in Iraq...

Since it turns out that Iraq didn't have WMDs, why was Saddam so cagey for so long about demonstrating that he didn't have them? ...

Brilliant. From City Comforts Blog . With a big thank you Big Media Matt for pointing this out .

Country music tells the truth. MKB points out that it also contributes to suicide . The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 ...

For readers' convenience, I've created an index of the Kevin letters so you can see the full progress of the dialogue Kevin, my i...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory + Apocalypse Now = Chocolypse Now

I think, when I get my three wishes, I might burn one of them on being as quick as Jon Stewart. Dig it: Bill O'Reilly interviews Stew...

Remember the "extraordinary rendition" provision floating through congress that I posted about recently ? It looks like the White ...

For readers' convenience, I've created an index of the Kevin letters so you can see the full progress of the dialogue Dear Kevin:...

Mr. Conner was kind enough to pass on --- a bit belatedly --- a test of the candidates in the most recent SF mayoral election . Most of my r...

I went to a couple of big antiwar rallies during the run-up to the Iraq invasion. As in most of the US, the big rallies were organized by In...

Atrios points us to a New York Times story which further underlines that administration claims about Iraq's nuclear program were not h...

As part of our ongoing pirate coverage , I offer you a bunch of authentic historical pirate flags on a site full of pirate resources. V...

Big Media Matt has a nice observation about the value and limitations of the United Nations. It serves a valuable quasi-asperational pur...

Go take the pledge . It's the right thing to do. Props to Kira April for pointing this one out .

Like many San Franciscans, I loathe Los Angeles. Like many people who grew up in Los Angeles and left, I loathe Los Angeles. But, I am...

For readers' convenience, I've created an index of the Kevin letters so you can see the full progress of the dialogue Atrios no...

I know I'm very late to the party, but I was driven truly speechless by the massacre. I find that Ken MacLeod sums up the situation ...

Apparently we lost him last week, but I just found out. Russ Meyer 1922-2004 greatest exploitation director of all time One must ...