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Via Content Love Knowles, a spook’s comments about the outing of Valerie Plame. the real issues before this Congress and this countr...

I just had a piece of Turkish delight for the first time. It tastes nothing like I imagined, reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrob...

Sorry, gang. Still on the road, with little time to surf and blog. I promise I'm not just suffering from blog depression.

Via Collision Detection, I learn that actress Danica McKellar — who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and has since turned up as...

... until morale improves. Via Thomas Roche.

On his way to panning Wedding Crashers , Roger Ebert explains the key to the structure of a comedy film. ... her tantrum, incredibly,...

A quick sweep from the web about Bush's nominee for Supreme Court Justice. Law.com: Roberts, with 20 months on the D.C. Circuit, has ...

Tom Engelhardt has a good rant about the morality of our fearless leaders. You sweep opponents up on a battlefield, but you don't want...

Check it out. Note the signatures.

Why is Karl Rove about to go down in flames? I see that Digby has wrapped up the whole story in a tidy bundle for our convenience, in ca...

It's that time of year again, but what with the news and friends getting enlightened and the sorts of things I've been reading and a...

Warren Ellis points out a site selling Communist propaganda posters . No, I'm not a Communist, but I do dig that propaganda style. Indee...

Here in Lefty Blogistan, we often take pleasure in reading Scott McClellan's circumlocutions at White House press briefings as he tries ...

Billmon puts a well-known metaphor through its paces, and gets a lot of mileage out of it. The classic Darwinian remedy for this prob...

I'm basically going to spend the next month visiting the conference rooms of America for work. Friends may have a bit of trouble reachin...

This just slays me. A regular visitor to Jewhoo sent us a publicity release from an organization that specializes in a form of Jewish mys...

For those of you who have been following the Valerie Plame story, like I have: if you haven’t heard it elsewhere, it turns out that the...

Terrorism works not so much by directly killing people, but by causing the target population to freak out. Mark A. R. Kleiman makes the p...

Sure, for a brief and beautiful moment, a gay or lesbian couple could get married by a city official in my town. And in much of the country...

The list Animated, by time and location : Very illuminating

Ebert: The really good superhero movies, like Superman, Spiderman 2 and Batman Begins, leave Fantastic Four so far behind that the mov...

Nous sommes tous britanniques Dozens are dead in terrorist attacks on London's public transit system. DeLong comments We mourn wit...

Via Indri of Waterbones , who insists on getting credit for passing on this story, I learn of a brawl between knights and zombies in Mont...

I'm guessing that more than a few of my readers have at least heard about the recent New York Times article "Straight, Gay or Lyin...

Rudolf Höss was troubled by the actions of a few bad apples. These so-called ill-treatments and torturing in concentration camps, stories...

You know what I really like? When I get some inscrutable piece of paper from an evil corporation I'm dealing with, and I have to sign ...

Via Majikthise, a blog meme that I've let myself get sucked into. Apparently there's a guy who wants to get political and personali...

Tim Cavanaugh at Reason magazine says go see Land of the Dead before it shambles away. After several years of flashy, fast-moving, MTV-r...

America: Fuck yeah !

Informed by things that have happened since I wrote this, I have what I hope is a more astringent version of this rap. Today is Indep...