Miniver Cheevy

I'm a little too busy doing Hallowe'en to write about Hallowe'en, so instead I offer you Eminem. I guess he's a bit of a sca...

It seems that the Little People are real after all . The remains of a diminutive cousin of modern Man, nicknamed "the hobbit", ...

It's no surprise, but they do it well. The New Yorker endorses John Kerry , starting from a pretty good overview of the course of the B...

I know, I'm like a broken record. Does he think he won't get caught, or is he deluded enough to have blocked out his own inconvenien...

Word Props to Mon-K-Boy's linkblog , yo.

It's everything you would hope for and more. RobLimo introduces the interview by saying There is nothing better than a Slashdot i...

It seems Hunter S. Thomson is covering the presidential campaign for Rolling Stone just like old times. I almost felt sorry for him, un...

Atrios tells me that CNN covered a Kerry rally yesterday. The transcript reads : Former President Bill Clinton joining him [John Kerry]...

Thanks to my colleague Scout, I just discovered the spooky lefty propaganda animation "what barry says" at Knife Party . You...

William Gibson's blog is back Why? Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who ...

Enough with the politics; time for some pop music. Thanks to Votum Succendo , I now know a lot more about David Bowie's greatest song...

My blogroll has suffered from feeping creaturism. In case you haven't noticed the recent appearance of the Shrillblog , I recommend that...

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

New studies reveal that Bush voters don't know the facts , even about their own candidate's positions , while it turns out that Dail...

Abu Aardvark says the important thing . Everything else is trivia in comparison.

Blogosphere superstar Tony Pierce (a close, close personal friend of mine) sets aside his fictional ruminations on his fictional glamourous ...

Yeah, I'm an obsessive blog surfer: smart people writing in bite-size chunks for the limited slices of time I have to exercise my burgeo...

What if Bush had been elected? Gore struggled with the economic downturn early in his term and barely has us back on track. You can dep...

Time for more crossover humor. It's political, not quite work-safe, very silly, very clever, and there's no point in trying to tell ...

Errol Morris has his whole set of anti-Bush commercials online. Mail a link to the undecided voter in your address book today. Oh, and f...

If you haven't yet checked out Faith-Based Presidency , which I blogged a few days ago , let me encourage you again to look at it. It...

And while we're talking about the President's scary certainty, let me also remind us that a while ago, Big Media Matt observed of o...

Make of it what you will. I'm crazy enough without taking this stuff seriously. A Salon article , pictures , and a weblog talking ab...

In case you haven't seen it yet, Röyksopp's video for their song "Remind Me" is a little marvel of whimsical infographic-...

Some time ago, I was having a drink or three with my friend Fionn, and as we raised our glasses I insisted that a toast was in order. “Fir...

For readers' convenience, I've created an index of the Kevin letters so you can see the full progress of the dialogue Kevin: T...

How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb? None. There's nothing wrong with that light bulb. There ...

Ron Suskind has a terrific long article in The New York Times Magazine entitled Without A Doubt . Suskind marshalls some evidence to sup...

The New York Times has put this article into its web archive such that readers must pay a steep fee to see it. I am reprinting it in full ...