Riffle

I'm watching Chris Matthews question some Illinois state legislators about the Blagojevich ouster. It's amazing such an utter fucku...

1) At Last (the song to which the Obamas performed their "first dance" at various balls. Written in 1941 for a mostly forgotten m...

Initially I thought I'd write a post detailing similarities between Count Arthur Strong and George W. Bush (believe me, there are plen...

I must note that BBC Radio 4 has begun a new series of C ount Arthur Strong's Radio Show! There are few things better.

In searching for a video of Randy Newman's song "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2, I found that someone had put together a ...

I know a homeopath-- he was very down, very depressed. He tried to commit suicide with a massive underdose. It seems like it must be an old...

From recent issues of The Onion Bush Passes Three-Pound Kidney Stone Crocodile Bites Off Bush's Arm Bush Tumbles Wildly Down Washington ...

Philip Klinker at PolySigh has a great find . I see from various points of the blogosphere that the real reason for the financial meltdow...

They're all in Latin America, so they all speak Latin , right? Who gives an interview to a foreign reporter without knowing the name of ...

Preemptive thievery during the Republican convention . The thief stole according to the victim's principles: Asked by the interviewer ...

Andrew Sullivan notes that Ross Douthat thinks outright lying is fine. This makes Douthat what people know as "a liar," and ever...

David Brooks writes slitheringly about what a bad leader Sarah Palin could be, but backhands and backtracks through the whole enterprise. H...

Queen Elizabeth I on a pogo stick! Simon Munnery in Stewart Lee's    Late But Live  at Edinburgh, 2008.

Reihan Salam (writer, with Douthat, of "Grand New Party"), reveals that the Grand Old Party is really what they want--but maybe w...

i just ran across quite a good blog that's not well known. Gerry Canavan . This image alone should elevate him to the pantheon: Gerry C...

Edgar Wright -- director and co-writer of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz , talks at length with Elvis Mitchell of KCRW's The Treatment...

Since I helped the Alaska government with server problems last week, I figured I'd post an update about the Richter divorce papers: Alas...

For some reason, after Andrew Sullivan posted that Sarah and Todd Palin's former business partner had filed an emergency motion to seal...

John McCain George Bush is running as a refomer! Yay, four more years of fake Republican "reform."