James Pethoukoukis begins his  Love Song to Sarah Palin, Ice Goddess Warrior Princess of The North with an unfortunate opening sentence: Sarah Palin rides to the sound of the guns. …and then proceeds to go  Bulwer-Lytton on a Red Bull & Cialis binge about that quittin’ gal that he just can’t quit: It was a [...]

For those who once wondered why we held a blogathon for Roy Edroso back in the day, this is why. That was what I hoped for as I watched the thing last night, because as much fun as it is to slag rotten movies, it is much better to be surprised by a good one, [...]

New TV On The Radio didn’t show up today. Sad. But carry onward we must: My Beloved Monster – Eels Naked Eye – Luscious Jackson Arnold Layne – Pink Floyd Gassed & Stoked – Lou Reed Bend Over Beethoven – !!! All Your Sisters – Mazzy Star Ode To Isis – And You Will Know [...]

It’s Tax Day and…… This is probably a good thing since McMegan’s relationship with her calculator is similar in many ways to Wile E. Coyote’s relationship to an ACME jetpack.

Writing about Atlas Shrugged: The Movie opening Friday (can’t you just smell the flop-sweat excitement!), Michael Phillips, tips us off to the latest in Randian sexytime pick-up lines: There is a woman at the zinc-like heart of it all, the railroad company magnate Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling, bland as water). She becomes one with the [...]

Some of you may remember a request I made a few weeks ago for science fiction recommendations for the lovely & talented Casey because she’s going through a post-graduate nerd phase. The response was, to say the least, unnervingly  popular indicating that my readership has possibly a higher percentage of virgins then one might find [...]

The Business and Economics editor for The Atlantic explains how to make a cake while reminding us that her grandmother used to have to hunt for Archaeopteryx eggs, grow, harvest and mill her own wheat, and milk the goats only to discover after hours of intensive labor that fire had yet to be invented. Seriously, [...]

Actually I’m not talking about me (although it does apply), but with Donald Trump and Michele Bachmann sucking up all of the No Chance Of EVER Being Elected President oxygen lately, ole Grandpa Fred Thompson wants everyone to know that not only is he still alive and kicking but he is tan, rested and ready, [...]

This being Saturday night, it’s movie night! And we are sitting down to watch… Wendy and Lucy: I know so much about Wendy, although this movie tells me so little. I know almost nothing about where she came from, what her life was like, how realistic she is about the world, where her ambition lies. [...]