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Josh Marshall: Atrios pointed me to Joe Nocera's piece in the Times on AIG and just what it was they were doing and why we're now having to spend perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars to clean up the mess. I strongly recommend reading it. TPM even has a picture of Nocera up next to the recommendat...

Honestly, I thought I had blogged about this recipe before now, but apparently I only complained in chat. I really like Emeril's "Chicken, Mushroom, and Spinach Alfredo Lasagna," and it's easy enough to make (more or less), but Emeril's recipe writing is nothing like Cook’s Illustrated . Ingre...

After what happened to Steve Jobs last month, I'm even more reluctant than before to talk about my health, lest Philip Elmer-DeWitt or some other unreconstructed bozo decide to remotely diagnose me. On the other hand, I know some of you genuinely care, so here's the short version, and this is all I ...

George Carlin was awarded the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor, but died before the ceremony to give it. Many of the country's best comedians came together in his honor for the ceremony, which was broadcast on PBS in high definition. OETA pre-empted the PBS broadcast for a pledge drive spec...

You'd think that would be some kind of cool iTunes reference, but it's not. I've tried to keep some tahini on hand for a while, because it's useful: Unlike peanut butter, it's not usually made with salt (or at least not much), so there are no sodium implications. Like peanut butter, it basically las...

Eric Boehlert: The casual contempt for Obama—an unheard of phenomenon for the press eight years ago when Bush arrived in the Beltway—has already become impossible for many within the media industry to hide. Digby: We are still living in bizarroworld. The entire media became hysterical, n...

Factual reality: OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)–New details released by the White House show 43,300 jobs will be saved or created in Oklahoma over two years by a stimulus package that is the heart of President Obama’s economic recovery plan. Oklahoma officials said Wednesday they are waiting for spe...

Just after I finish working on an item about Adobe Flash, I need some mental refreshment, so I pay a visit to the Web site of one of my favorite composers. On every machine I have, on every browser, it won't let me see a single damned thing because it says I don't have Adobe Flash Player installed. ...

One of the thing that drives me the craziest about the ignorance-embracing climate change deniers is that as soon as the temperature goes below 32°F, their remarks are as predictable as sunrise: "Whew, it's cold! Where's Al Gore's global warming when we need it? HAR HAR HAR! I'm so hilarious! An...