I was visiting SamuraiFrog's site and he was noting that some named Slpotchy has designated a day to adopt an actor. I would recommend you pick a character actor, as they are the unsung heroes of the entertainment world. By adopting Character Actor X you are not expected to be an exhaustive resource...

Not much can capture the joy of a 6% rally like the Aquarius song from closing credits from the 40 Year Old Virgin. Thank goodness the bear is over, the financial crisis is over and we can buy them with both hands (that was sarcastic). As has been mentioned many times the biggest up days occur in be...

I was musing - as I wont to do - about the different definitions of the word heart. There's the muscle that beats every second or so, which helps circulate the blood, the one that's subject to attack. Then there's the romantic notion of love as represented by a symbol. Related, there's the center of...

Christopher O'Riley brought Radiohead, Nirvana and Pink Floyd to the airwaves Monday afternoon during a live studio performance at Moses Znaimer's The New Classical 96.3FM in Toronto. O'Riley is an accomplished pianist whose entire album's worth of Radiohead songs, True Love Waits got four stars fro...

From Johnny B, whose intro I'm also purloining:The title is self-evident, and I'm taking it to mean 25 albums that were most influential in shaping my music-listening tastes for all time. This is, as many have noted, VERY DIFFICULT- mostly because I'm trying to list albums that were truly influentia...

A reader left a link to a long article from the Boston Globe about what a modern depression would look like. My first observation was that it reads a lot like Michael Panzner's book that I was probably the last person to read two years ago. Amusingly it seemed less bleak than when I read most of the...

Dans un point de vue publié dans le quotidien Le Monde, Pierre Veltz qui dirige la mission d'aménagement de la Région capitale nous interpelle. Pierre Veltz est aussi l'auteur de "Des lieux et des liens : essai sur les politiques du territoire à l'heure de la mondialisation" (Ed. de l'Aube, 2008...

I was just watching the MacroTwits hour with Gregor Macdonald (@gregorMacdonald), and got to observe some very interesting banter about the hot topics of the day - SPX, USO, sovereign debt issuance, etc. But oil seems to be on everybody's mind. General sentiment is that USO is ticking up, as both OP...

Parlant d'"Une ambition juste et légitime", Manuel Valls presse le Président de la République d'aller vite. Inoui! Le président de la République veut prendre son temps pour refondre les institutions locales. Aussitot Manuel Valls ajoute "On peut saluer cette sagesse inédite, mais on peut aussi...

Salient, I disagree. Look, for instance, at the immediate self-policing my comment evokes, which is one of the aspects of the democracy deficit I’m talking about. You have Henry, who comes up with a line that seems like subdeb Rambo II, about those on the left [?] and elsewhere who… made...