February 2, 2013 (Warning: spoilers ahead.) I haven’t really kept up with my movie-going lately, but Django stood out for me quite...

January 24, 2012 {Note: This is in response to an article in Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/01/apple_s_e_te...

June 11, 2011 · It's part of Windows 7 I believe. I finally decided to test it out by saying (carefully enunciating) the old phrase:...

May 21, 2010 · In my previous post on this freak, I urged her to accept the offer to do porn movies to actually bother to earn a living...

March 25, 2010 · Octomom, plucky, publicity-seeking mom of 14 kids, including the octuplets who gave her her name in the national media,...

May 15, 2010 · As the nation pays not-so-rapt attention to the confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan, how many of you have been thinking that the Dems actually made a huge mistake coming out against Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court? The net result was the seating of Alito, a hard-righter who helped snowball the court's sickening lurch to the looney right. Miers may not have been the brightest bulb in the box, but she might even have had the potential to become something o

August 3, 2009 · I had recently begun arguing to my friends that in fact our problem was not that we were involved in too many wars, but...

February 27, 2010 · I’m not normally one for religious holidays of any sort, but an article in Slate has made me think I might be...

February 14, 2010 · Finally got around to watching Shrek. More interesting than I had anticipated. But I do have a question or two… The...

August 2, 2009 · Many of my friends are of the “Bush was awful and every single thing he ever did was awful” persuasion. And there’s...

July 30, 2009 · http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/31pay.html?_r=1&hp Big Banks Paid Billions in Bonuses Amid Wall St. Crisis By...

July 28, 2009 · A blog story ( http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/two-states-legalize-guns-in-bars/ ) in the NYT reports that...

April 25, 2009 · I received a fortune cookie in a Chinese restaurant a little while ago which read: "Fear is the darkroom where...

June 9, 2009 · Rest in peace, Grasshopper “We have all been in rooms/We cannot die in” “Adultery,” James Dickey In Tarantino’s Kill Bill...

June 25, 2009 · So apparently philosophy is not dead. In a bid to enrich the passenger experience on the London tube, they have decided...

July 17, 2009 · Subsidize Viagra to ensure quality of life: Swedish court Published: 10 Jul 09 18:40 CET Arguing that having sex is...