It's the last day of the month, which means... time for the SILVER STAR AWARDS.  (Sometimes that's also what the first day means: ti...

A lot happened this month, but alas I could not be bothered to find the time to write about it.  Personally though I think the last couple o...

Starbucks is being sued for firing a woman who has dwarfism. After three days of barista training, the woman was fired from an El Paso stor...

OK, I just have to share this with you guys... And PLEASE, tell me how you would interpret this, how you would feel about this, becuase......

This came from a cracked.com photoplasty contest . There were a slew of good ones, but I'm a huge Star Wars fan, plus this one rather ap...

This song is dedicated to every Conservative who likes it becuase they don't understand irony. LOL My new favorite song.  Couldn...

By now, I'm sure many of you have heard John McCain's position regarding the use of torture  (ahem) enhanced interrogation techniqu...

Is it me, or does it seem sometimes that the race to the top of Conservative media is little more than a contest to see who can be the bigge...

I posted something on Media Matters today that got an overwhelmingly positive response and generated some interesting challenges to it as w...

LOL - That got you curious, didn't it? It's pretty likely that you don't know this author, but I know him  very well, persona...

I'm over in Germany right now, and just got off the plane when I heard the news that OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS BEEN KILLED.  Congratulations t...

As has been becoming an unfortunate tradition lately, here are April's Gold star winners, one day late.  We're up to 1962, that'...

Apparently, the last time the State of Texas tried to legalize and legislate bigotry and stand in the way of social progress, there was a lo...

Sorry for all the cracked.com article lately.  The real world is just so frustrating & depression that, yes, I've spent most of my t...

So, there I was, at the gym, right in the middle of my second set of biangle presses when this... absolutely, amazingly beautiful and moving...

This post (and it's title) is meant as a somewhat satirical example of "false balance."  I had some fun with my mother the oth...

(FYI - This was originally written ~April 2nd) Ah. Today we set sail for the Western Caribbean aboard the beautiful Crown Princess. Althou...

Yeah... That doesn't make much sense. I was in the Caribbean last week.  Yeah, it rocked. I also spent two days with my parents (who...

OK, so it's been a really thin month.  By far the thinnest since I started blogging.  Only four pieces, and two of them were Silver Star...

It suffers rather a bit from the "false balance" problem... I don't care what they say, you simply cannot compare Keith Olberm...