MASTERS OF THEIR DOMAIN I don’t want to really review the show itself, but more the change it made in our world. If I was to focus on individual events in the 9 year span of the show, I could be here for days. We all have our favourite moments and characters. Far be it from me to tell you whic...

A friend of mine likes to say that he reads the Sunday Styles section before he reads everything else, so that he can get good and angry in the morning. Today is no exception. Pre-economic collapse, the Styles section featured infuriating coverage of the blithely upwardly mobile citizens of Park Slo...

Dear Deployment, Although I understand that we are not strangers, I did want to set forth a few ground rules and observations before you officially begin your timeline.  First and foremost, please remember that I despise surprises so should you feel the need to visit again before my husband re...

Dear Deployment, Although I understand that we are not strangers, I did want to set forth a few ground rules and observations before you officially begin your timeline.  First and foremost, please remember that I despise surprises so should you feel the need to visit again before my husband re...

An ongoing meme for the conservative, Christian right wing is that Christians are being persecuted by the nefarious forces of evil liberals. Fox News seems to be more than willing to promote this notion as shown in their providing a platform for the bogus “war on Christmas� and for their residen...

Today is an anniversary of sorts for the blogosphere. Not necessarily a happy one, but an anniversary nonetheless. Today is the anniversary of Blogroll Amnesty Day. For those not familiar with the history, Jon Swift had the following take at the time it happened. This past weekend Atrios, the propri...

yes, once again it's time to celebrate b.a.d., or blogroll amnesty day, for short! this space, along w/our partners in this endeavor, jon swift and blue gal, are once again rejoicing in the plethora of the cornucopia of the excess of the diversity of diverse voices (and good writing, too!) available...

We all know brands are using Twitter — whether or not you want them around. Some of them don’t quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won’t find any of those brands here. We’ve handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the mic...

Or, put another way, too much political correctness equals one very p*ssed off mommy.  Warning -- if disdain for political correctness as it relates to religion offends you, please click away. DD had her Christmas pageant last Friday.  It was supposed to be scheduled before Christmas, bu...

I recently relaunched SportsFilter using the site's original web design on top of new programming, replacing a ColdFusion site with one written in PHP. The project turned out to be the most difficult web application I've ever worked on. For months, I kept writing PHP code only to throw it all out an...