Miniver Cheevy

It's a bit late for this, what with the election over, but I have to share a disconcerting thought experiment that Big Media Matt propo...

The web contains pages on every conceivable subject, as well as most inconceivable subjects. Case in point: A fedora-bedecked man stands...

Even if you're not interested in the writer Poppy Z. Brite, you may enjoy her description of the four stages of her writing career. ...

From Patriotic High-Fructose Corn Syrup , a little review of National Treasure , which offers a terrific alternate ending to the movie. I ha...

Continuing on the theme of Mark A.R. Kleiman's observation about how many Americans feel that the left has unfairly imposed its views o...

Mark A.R. Kleiman shows us what you do when someone takes pains to clarify something for you. In addition to reminding me about the diff...

I've been saving all of the unfair, whiny, angry, ranting lefty stuff I've been seeing in the wake of the election for one big prima...

If you're going to be following the coming political fight over tax code revision, Big Media Matt conveniently gives a capsule review of...

Learn about software message exchanges by visiting Starbuck's! Not as much fun as A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer , but still pre...

Salon just ran an interview with Leila Sadat, a commissioner on the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom during the ...

Jesse at Pandagon makes a connection that I should have noticed before. I read a good four to five pieces each week declaring that acade...

As part of our ongoing ninja coverage here at Miniver Cheevy, I inform you that this Sunday will be the second annual Day of the Ninja ...

Juan Cole, as usual, knows what's what and offers his summation on Powell's resignation , which may be even worse news than I though...

Indri tells me that a study covered in New Scientist reveals that Superman is a counterproductive role model . Students who thought of ...

Pharyngula is my new hero. His blog is available in both regular and pirate mode.

At my mother's request, I offer y'all this list of things I want as Christmas gifts. Friends and loved ones reading this, please...

I've been cackling with glee over the trailer for National Treasure . The whole thing is stupid, of course, and I gather that the movie...

Hey, kids! Apostropher found these cool stickers ! I like this one: This textbook contains material on gravity . Gravity is a theory, no...

Or does she look like Hiro Protagonist?

Digby just hits the nail right on the head , pow , with a long post about the challenges of constructing a Democrat populism that will play ...

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I, for one, know that I have a lot to be thankful for. In honor of the day, I'd like to solicit some i...

Why do we teach this to children? I before E except after C and when sounded like A as in neighbor and weigh .... with just a...

Arianna Huffington has a fascinating article about the mistakes of the Kerry campaign. In conversations with Kerry insiders over the las...

I caught The Incredibles last week and it's as fun as everyone says. It's strange to say this about a movie with no real props ...

I have three heaping servings of the dark psychosexual undercurrents of politics for you. Mark Ames makes some very unhappy speculati...

Deadly Warren Ellis has just finished his 50 part series of very short fiction and essays, "Scream Talking" , published on the we...

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

If you're the sort of person who's thinking of picking up Susanna Clark's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , then you'll wa...

So I learn from Errol Morris' wonderful website that Donald Trump's favourite film is, of course, Citizen Kane . Morris: If yo...

Part of how a lot of lefties, like me, got fooled into thinking that Bush would lose the election was that we imagined that the Bush "r...