The Rhode Island Senate has passed a marriage equality bill by a 26-12 vote. Governor Lincoln Chaffee has already come out in support of it. After a long battle played out within the bizarre entity known as the Democratic Party (all 12 no votes were from...
This is a guest post by Steven Attewell, my co-host-who-does-most-of-the-heavy-lifting on our Game of Thrones podcasts, in which he discusses military strategy in a way that Rob's more fit to.
Tweet of the day, in response to this: The Mariners seem to be working on the principle that if trying to be good at defense didn't work they should try.
Just wanted to post a brief message to let the LGM commentariat know that Akismet is acting wonky today and is putting some of your comments in spam, even if you in no way promised to make my penis bigger. If I find comments pending, I'll...
Piggybacking on my earlier post, here is an encore presentation of an entry I wrote awhile back about white male saviors in cinema. Re-watching bits of Avatar now has me.
Shorter Dylan Byers: "Dean Baquet punching a wall proves that Jill Abramson is too flighty and hot-tempered to be a boss. A chick in a position of authority is unnatural,.
James Taranto makes an argument that has become increasingly common as opponents of legal abortion try the essentially impossible task of making supporters of legal abortion responsible for Kermit Gosnell's illegal abortion clinic. His strategy is to try to make the disgraceful regulatory neglect shown by...
We don't hear too many stories anymore like last week's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, where the death toll has now risen to 15. This is because we have.
Lame ducks don't get much lamer than Rex Ryan. If you're going to tank, you should tank right -- MORE TEBOW. I think this year they should really try to.
Quickie review of "Django Unchained..." (Please bear in mind that I watch all movies nowadays with one eye on a toddler, so everything I write should be taken with a 33-lb. grain of bouncing salt.) I'm not sure I like the trajectory of Quentin Tarantino's latest...
Rick argues that today, the idea that the hero could attack the bag guy without cutting corners is hard to imagine: Andrew Sullivan has recently pointed out the absurdity of.
Quiet evening here, seems like a good time to embed a Dave Flesicher cartoon. From 1939, this is The Barnyard Brat. This is part of his Hunky and Spunky series,.