Keepin' It Real, Yo

I had this dream last night. A duck walked up to me with a film script tied to his back. I saw on the cover page that it was addressed to a ...

The Senate has passed the spending bill for the Iraq war , which includes about $120 billion in pork and a little language suggesting a with...

I am a genius. I just wrote a SONG that you will enjoy. Yes, it's a little derivative, and you may find parts of it familiar. However,...

The housing market is said to finally be making that correction that everyone predicted. In most places anyway. We bought our West Valley ho...

This weekend TCM aired THE CRAZIES, George A. Romero's 1973 thiller about a small town overrun by non-zombies. I'm going to talk abo...

Seriously. Good luck dude.

The Washington Post reports today on the best corruption story ever - Lawrence Small, the manager of the Smithsonian Museum, is resigning af...

Netflix has again provided me with an opportunity to seek out movies I wasn't quite motivated enough to catch at the time. In this case ...

Here's a little anecdote which illustrates why it's so frustrating to argue with Republicans. Hat tip to THINKPROGRESS, which in tur...

A guy I used to do improv with was fond of quoting this behavioral experiment. If you put a bunch of rats in a box, and close it up, then st...

Bush said this morning that he stands behind him 100%

No! No, dammit! The title was google-bait for wingnuts. Hi, wingnuts! Welcome aboard - I put out donuts for ya. Valerie Plame, testifying be...

I'm sitting in a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf © right now, and a lady was just kind enough to hand me my bagel, instead of me having to get ...

I watched TV last night. This is becoming an increasingly rare activity for me - I'd rather do this, blogging, what I'm doing now. I...

Spoke too soon again. I'm only reading a few blogs (when their servers are working) and OF COURSE the talking point about the Clintons a...

As a political blogger, I consider it my mission to trash the other side. But even I get bored of it after a while, and it's not like th...

You know this recent rash of state attorney firings, and how they're saying it's no big deal because Clinton did it too? I haven...

As you know, I get all my right-wing talking points from the blogs that quote them. This allows the craziness to distill, and it comes to me...

I endured my 45th birthday yesterday. I'm neurotic about birthdays (and Christmas, the only holiday I really would declare war on) so I...

You probably read about this...the Nevada Democratic Party has declined to allow Fox News to televise their upcoming debate. The stated posi...