Like many commenters, I have to offer a dissent from my colleague's arguments here. I don't really care about artists selling their music to advertisers, for a couple of reasons. First of all is my general agreement with the late Christopher Moltisanti's dictum that unless they're...
Holy crap.It's only 15 minutes long, but it might be the scariest thing I've ever seen. (And no, it's not a Atlas Shrugs vlog.)
Well, as I watch Elvis Costello hawk Lexuses (Lexi?) on TV, I wave goodbye to one of the last holdouts from the pre-80's era. Its now assumed that if you.
Shorter Verbatim Blogs4Brownback: "I support the Bible, and I don’t want my children learning about Heliocentrism in school. I think this doctrine encourages atheism, Darwinism, and anti-Americanism. I don’t want my tax dollars going to finance this kind of false science. It’s complete rot, and I...
It is a time of political transition in Europe. While Tony Blair is not leaving his post as the UK's PM until next month, Jacques Chirac has already been replaced.
From the No Comment Required files, there's this from Daniel Johnson, who proves that Tony Blair isn't the only Englishman making an idiot of himself these days:Why isn’t John Bolton.
Old-timers: who did you favor in the Iran-Iraq war?If you had a hard time picking a favorite, then you can imagine what I think of the latest upcoming Mets-Yankees subway series. Because I have been a fan of the KC Royals since about 1970, I guess...
Herman and Vermin. These cats were the companions of Frances Benjamin Johnson, one of the most important -- and forgotten -- American photographers of the early 20th century. Johnson photographed.
Tom Tomorrow got his hands on a declassified slide presentation given to Bush and Rumsfeld by the US Central Command in the Fall of 2002.Some notable excerpts:-By Spring of 2005,.
Adieu. That was painfully drawn out....Indeed:But to comprehend his doomed-ness and what to make of it, one needs to step back. Why was he given the job in the first place? He had no obviously qualifications for it. He's read some neoliberal political commentary about the...
Douglas Kmiec. Answer to title question: "No. No, they can't."
Not to put too fine a point to it, but zoos are depressing, y'all.Alaska's only elephant had to be hoisted to her feet for the second time in a week,.