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James Ellroy is to noir fiction what Herman Melville is to fishing stories, and the word is that his life is not so different from his s...

Curse you, internet! Ordinarily I would never have known about Iggy Pop's surreal, mortifying performance on American Idol . But ther...

House of Games was the first film David Mamet directed, featuring Joe Mantegna as a con artist. My favourite line in the film is when he s...

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You've heard of the “homosexual agenda,” right? On this week's episode of Glee , we got a proper kiss between two gay characters....

I don't have answers, but I like the questions these games ask. Brenda Brathwaite's Train John Tynes' Power Kill F...

President Obama says he accepts the Pentagon's assurances that Bradley Manning's treatment in custody is right and appropriate: ...

In reference to this clip of Senator Paul complaining about his toilet.

Preface : This post was an attempt to lay out my thinking about a difficult topic. I don’t think it works well. I leave it up for posteri...

TomDispatch offers an expansive accounting of the military budget that tallies it at $1.2 Trillion/year. I'm not sure if I buy those fi...

Cartesian bears can be found in temperate climates closer to the equator, where longitude lines can be treated as approximately parallel. F...

Good evening to the American people, the people of Egypt, and the people of the world. Hosni Mubarak's government in Egypt has lon...

Via Ben Jervey at Good magazine.

Cairo yesterday: Washington DC 1967:

I stumbled across an old interview with Gary Wolf, the author of the original novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? My favourite little bit. I...

Alfred Pennyworth has so much in common with Jeeves. “Enough talk about that, Jeeves. I think I’ve made it quite clear that the cape repre...

Via @acrylicist, I learn about PasswordCard , a cunning little web utility that helps with the problem of remembering lots of strong unique...

The New York Times Magazine offers us a beautiful piece: Fourteen Actors Acting: A Video Gallery of Screen Types, a series of little v...

Furry Girl at Feminisnt gives us what may be the blog post of the year: My experience mocking TSA security theater at Seatac as a nearly-...

Brad DeLong explains why deficit spending is a very good idea right now. The principle to which Interfluidity refers is that when times are ...

A terrific, sharp-tongued summary of the Tea Party's principles Digby: hatred of government a loathing for liberals (and other assorte...

Michael Been 1950-2010 Singer and songwriter I just discovered that Michael Been, songwriter for The Call, died a few months bac...

As part of my ongoing coverage of allusions to my favourite poem, I give you T. S. Elliot's Lost Hip Hop Poem: Via @tristissima who...

I've been meaning to create a web image for this for a while. It should have a number of applications. You keep using that word. I...

Ezra Klein offers us this puzzling graph: Digby explains: Americans worship winners and they don't really care about unfair proce...

Well, I should think so.

A friend pointed me at this picture from a remarkable photo essay about the protests at the G20 summit. It reminded me of an old favour...

I'm finding that the two most useful applications on my iPad are Instapaper and GoodReader. Instapaper is a service for reading lon...

What, again? Vote early. Vote often. Vote no. Except for 15 and (though I resent having to vote on something that passed the legislatur...

Physicians for Human Rights has a new report: In the most comprehensive investigation to date of health professionals’ involvement in the...