Vanity Fair a long story online about the meltdown of Iceland’s economy. It’s a facinating piece about how a famously reticent, frugal people managed to create a financial bubble that is certain to go down in the history books alongside the Holland’s tulip craze. Although the autho...

Like a lot people who grew up on comic books in the 1980s, I am looking forward to Watchmen movie with a mixture of anticipation and apprehension. In my heart I want to like it. If it does actually live up to the promise of the material in the way that the Lord of The Rings did that would be, well, ...

Life imitates an episode of T.J. Hooker: FULLERTON - While police officers continue their search for the man who stole beer from a supermarket, they are still shaking their heads at the actions of a bold clerk who jumped on the hood of the thief’s car and rode several blocks before retrieving ...

I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars, banging out crappy music. – Punk icon Iggy Pop, announcing he is doing a jazz album inspired by French literaure....

There were three computation errors in Christopher Hayes’s March 2 “Cut the Military Budget.� The Pentagon budget request represents a 13 (not 12) percent increase over last year’s budget. The reported Obama Defense Department appropriation would represent a 2.2 percent increase over last ye...

… I’m pretty sure God told Abraham to kill his son not stab him in the butt. I mean how can he sit in the pew after that?...

You know that’s the truth. Jeremy tries to impart some of Ol’ Blue Eye’s hard-earned wisdom to the president in his latest for the Politico: From his painful, rambling answer at an April 2004 news conference to his final televised White House address in January, in which he vaguely...

If you haven’t already read Jack Shafer’s takedown of Bill Moyers, do it now. It’s damn near a work of art....

Neither Jeremy nor I were very impressed with Bill Maher’s pro-atheism documentary Religulous, though we both did groove to the film’s cool soundtrack. One of the things that I didn’t much like about the film was its ambush-style interviews and heavy editing to make its subjects lo...

Our quote of the week, courtesy of one Mr. Amir Hoveyda, head of Boston College’s chemistry department: I can hardly imagine a more effective way to denigrate the faculty of an educational institution … The insult is particularly scathing, since such symbols were installed without discus...