Ever since I heard about it yesterday morning, I’ve been casting about for a proper way to talk about the Komen foundation’s decision to stop donating funds to Planned Parenthood (which does a lot of work to make early screenings for breast cancer available to all kinds of women), as a result of their “new […]

So, yesterday was the day that Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney released his 2010 tax returns. Sure, this sort of thing isn’t a requirement, but it’s one of those things that you do as a candidate, because it’s an indication of trust and openness (“hey, I have nothing to hide!”) and because it gives voters […]

Because I always link this, here’s the State of the Union Drinking Game for your imbibing pleasure. I’m not sure I’ll be watching. I’m really tired.

Today this site, along with thousands of others across the web, is going dark (from 8am to 8pm) to protest SOPA & PIPA, two bills currently flying through congress which will have wide-reaching consequences regarding security and freedom of expression online. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please visit American Censorship dot Org, […]

The best thing about the Iowa Caucuses last night is that I didn’t stay up to watch the returns, because if I did, I’d be too tired to accomplish anything today, and I start work much too early anyway. However, the whole thing is laid out there for me, in chronological order on twitter, and […]

Let’s hope so, anyway. In any case, a whole lot of people who could really use them are getting some happy holidays, as last US troops prepare to leave Iraq. Welcome home, folks.

Only a week late on this piece from the WaPo, but I only just found it this morning: These Games may seem barbaric to some, but they’re a modern tradition. They get the Shoppers in from all districts of the nation, train and groom them, and then release them on the fateful morning towards the […]

As you may be aware, dear reader, I’m a big fan of the kind of pop culture meta piece like this one from (surprise) Amanda Marcotte about what she perceives as the ascendance of mass-market mediocrity in modern American popular culture as being inherently more “worthy” than properties with more limited, niche appeal. I include […]

Today, November 8, is election day in the United States. So go and vote. Yes, it’s an off-year election, which, if your ballot looked like mine when I absenteed it a couple of days ago (business travel this week), means lots of local races for school board and county board of supervisors and stuff. Just […]

Whenever I see someone talking along the lines of the individual that slacktivist is talking about here, the whole business about how the founding fathers intended the United States to be a Christian nation, and the squinting at and bending of the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment to try and justify […]