Bill Maher is the new Paul Krugman
Sean MurphyThis man is speaking big, and increasingly necessary, truths. E.J. Dionne articulated the political stakes of the health care "debate", David Sirota looks at the bigger picture and The Krug…
Cancel My Subscription: An Open Letter to the Washington Post
To those too clueless to be concerned: First, let this letter serve as my formal request to cancel my subscription, effective immediately. Second, let me express my ardent hope and…
Sound and Vision at GigPosters.com
At least once per year, SPIN magazine justifies the $9.95 I pay to renew it each year. A few years back it was the review of the reissue African Roots from…
There’s Something Happening Here…
What it is, is very clear.
Celebrating Robert Shaw: Quint, Killer Scene and…Killer Beer
I don't have much to add to that picture, above. Except that I saw it, at a bar at Martha's Vineyard (quite appropriate, since as most folks know, Amity Island,…
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality
"A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm." That quote, attributed to a former CIA official who courageously remains anonymous, seems about as perfectly succinct a crystallization I've yet read regarding…
Song of the Day: Exhuming McCarthy
On June 9, 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy's attack on a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G.…
Hot Fun in the Summertime, circa 1984
The clothesline heard 'round the world Twenty-five years ago. Long enough to officially make it a classic. But, of course, it was a classic even as it was being…
Observations From The Acela Express: 127 Newark to D.C.
When I first read John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America I was a freshman in high school and not yet old enough to drive. Still, I felt…
Whoopin’ the Blues
The sand people always ride single file to hide their numbers... There is only one possible response to this picture: