It’s bizarre. Just as Bob was reading James Kunstler’s musings on societal collapse and wondering “what they are doing in the Hamptons right now,” I was in the Hamptons building a compost. I took the entry down to give more time to Matt’s assessment of fuel pricing, but...

The death of someone like Jesse Helms isn’t the kind of thing that usually sends me to blog but hearing about how people are trying to dismiss his reputation for bigoty certainly does. I remember back when, on one of the message boards I used to visit, someone posted some article trying to cla...

The Justice Department has notified the Supreme Court that a legal development on the death penalty in federal law was left out of the Court’s consideration of Kennedy v. Louisiana (07-343). In that decision, on June 25, the Court ruled 5-4 that it is unconstitutional to impose the death penal...

I guess I’m a sucker for any show that wants to be Mythbusters, so when I heard about The Rock & Roll Acid Test on music network Fuse from Nat I quickly set a recording. Overall, Acid Test does a much better job of matching the format of Mythbusters than the Discovery Channel’s disa...

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if Bill O’Reilly is the buffoon he seems to be or if he’s a some comedian pulling the longest running Ali G prank on the world. One of the running gags with Bill-O is his history with the Peabody Awards. First he tried to debunk the tabloid reputation of...

Oh, this could be interesting. Fox just ordered a “put pilot” (meaning that the odds favor this one becoming a series) adapting an Argentinian gender-bending telenovela, Lalola . The concept reminds me of the Jimmy Smits movie Switch, where a misogynistic jerk suddenly finds himself as a...

Another trip to the mound on Saturday in Tempe, Ariz., brought another positive review for Kelvim Escobar, his comeback from a labrum tear in his right shoulder moving along right on schedule, according to Angels manager Mike Scioscia....

Okay, so I used to love the Food Network but I almost never watch it nowadays. Part of that is because the new programs have been bloody boring (no surprise considering that Paula Deen seems to be their new star) and lacking any aspect that makes me want to cook, the other part, however, comes from ...

Okay so I missed when it came to posting Fox’s 2008-09 TV schedule. I’d feel bad about that except it’s not like what they announced will match what actually airs, with the way Fox constantly shuffles its schedule. However, there’s one show I feel the need to comment about ri...

Whew, okay, so the past month has been a bit… well, challenging. I guess my mind is adjusting to the whole “four seasons” thing. I got a taste of that seven years ago when I moved from Hawaii to the Bay Area but here in the southwest, the seasons are more distinct and it seems like...