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This post about understanding social class in the US has evolved and developed over time. It started with the overview of the Fussell sys...

Via Neil Gaiman, I learn that Bob Dylan developed his signature vocal style singing Dr Seuss books. (Maybe even better than Jesse Jackson...

Occasionally at work I cartoon at the whiteboard. Mostly the results are unimpressive, but there are a couple of examples that I'm kind ...

Scott Lemiuex at Tapped figures out an amazing statistic. Let's use their figures to extrapolate government health care spending per c...

In case you don't only get your political commentary from the blogosphere, I have some observations about mainstream punditry. Recently...

Michael Wesch, cultural anthropologist, has created Teaching the Machine, a crafty little piece of propaganda summing up a lot of stuff abo...

Bill Maher is a comic first and a political commentator second, so his rants tend to oversimplify for the sake of snark. But I have to agree...

Jean Baudrillard 1929-2007 Philosopher We've lost another postmodern French philosopher. Derrida was dense and witty; his magic wo...

The verdict is in. Libby, 56, faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a fine of $ 1 million. What am I talking abou...

Zombie! In! Spaaaaaace!

Atrios: Why Bill Clinton's past infidelity is more relevant to his wife's candidacy than Rudy Giuliani's own infidelity is to ...

If you were reading this blog in 2004, then you know that I did a fair bit of cheerleading for John Kerry. For a long time I wasn't thri...

Now that it's not gonna happen, Joss Whedon confesses his plan for Wonder Woman . My take on the movie was simply the story of somebod...

Sy Hersh has a new long article in The New Yorker and again it's a doozy. (There's also a good interview with Hersh on CNN, wher...

Via Wil Wheaton, I learn that John Scalzi contemplates The Exisitential Plight of Chester Chipmate. But more than that, as a store brand...

Digby posts on Tim Russert’s revelations on the stand in the Libby trial, basically admitting that he hid what he knew about the Bush Ad...

The difference between Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme's shows Sports Night and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is that in a half ho...

The Voco Clock features a set of wake-up messages from Stephen Fry, who played P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves, the gentleman's gentleman....

Martin Scorcese, best director. Damn straight. It's about time.

Viewing HBO's The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib has Scott Horton at Balkinization reflecting on the two Georges, Washington and Bush. Followin...

“So, Joss, why do you write such strong women characters?” He has a good answer. Actually, a few of them.

Matthew Yglasias sketches a quick outline of the moral reasoning behind being pro-choice, and makes an important observation en passant. ...

From a movie review: For years scientists have theorized that one day Nicolas Cage would overact so badly that his head would burst into fl...

I usually avoid this sort of thing, but somehow these pictures got under my skin. It's actually heartbreaking, if you stop to think. Pa...

Yes, that's a white guy. He's “Chief Illiniwek,” the mascot for the University of Illinois; he performs a dance during halftime ...