Ron Russell mentioned a story in the comments that I saw on Drudge earlier today just before I left for my appointment. Let me vent for one second before I go on...WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?! This headline at Drudge made my heart race: Wikipedia Scrubs Obama Page Clean of Critical Entries . My abso...

Ron Kaye and I were both interviewed for a piece by T.A. Frank in The New Republic about Tuesday's elections. Frank keenly observes how screwed up our City is when he notes that the election "failed to make the front of The Los Angeles Times." Calitics deftly wraps up why Tuesday's election was... [...

Jill Thompson posted some more preview art from Beasts of Burden #1 on her blog, including one of my favorite pages from the issue, a silent three-panel affair featuring the main cast searching the woods. There's also a photo of Em and her friend Josie reading Jill's Magic Trixie books at NYCC. I th...

It's late and I have to go to bed, but I'm posting this separately so it doesn't get lost in my other update. arcanelegacy has posted the first chapter of her pre-RE5 Chris/Jill story, which you should all go read right now because it's that good (and no, I'm not just saying that because she's readi...

Jhn Baer: Pennsylvania’s legislature has more staffers than anywhere else in country. Woo-hoo, we’re number one! Jill Porter: “But my math is simple: The more guns in circulation, the more that find their way to the dregs of society who casually assassinate cops.” You going t...

newVideoPlayer("/HouseWifeNY.flv", undefined, NaN,""); So tonight marks the premiere of The Real Housewives of New York City 's second season. No, that strange ache you felt near your heart wasn't indigestion. Never watched before? Here, let me introduce you. The show was the second installment of B...

"Bob Dylan used to come into the club for soup and Charlie was always being asked about him by young tourists. His reply was always the same. 'Bob Dylan? Dylan? Oh yes, I remember him. He was a cheap cocksucker! Never would give you a nickel. He shouldda dropped a hunnert on me for all I did for him...

In 2003, two years after President George Bush reinstated the Mexico City Policy (referred to by abortion proponents as the "global gag rule"), which denies U.S. funds to international groups that commit or promote abortion, the BBC reported the following: Hundreds of women's health organisations in...

A KC-135 Stratotanker, on the ramp at Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan. U.S. forces will soon leave the country, following a Kyrgyz decision to end the basing agreement (Wikipedia photo) Wanted: an airfield accessible by U.S. forces, capable of handling our largest cargo aircraft and located in close proximity ...

Wednesday Jill Porter: Last year, Jill Porter helped get Hershey’s to pull candy stamped “ICEBREAKERS” from the market because it sort of looked like crack (but not really). (It’s okay, Wired’s website agreed.) Anyway, Porter wrote about Michael Phelps and why marijuana...