We've all got our issues about which we're just plain unreasonable. One of mine is the right wing's vilification of "big government." You might as well try to engage me in a forum on whether the Earth is flat; I will simply get up and walk away from such a pointless conversation. Nothing will convin...

I didn't have a chance last week to take the Mojo challenge, so I was determined to make time for it this week.  And just look at this layout - isn't this adorable?!!  I loved it as soon as I saw it!! My finished project is nowhere near how it started.  I was determined to ...

There is a serious feud ongoing between Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer. Stewart, as you probably know, used the Daily Show and other venues to slam the financial TV networks in general and CNBC specifically. The Mad Money host, who has become famous by instructing viewers to buy and sell individual stoc...

If you want to have your heart break, I mean really break into a million jagged pieces, read WaPo'shideous piece on parents who forget their kids in cars where they die horribly while Mom types 200 feet away. Think it could never happen to you? Before I had kids, I would have been quite sure my answ...

A while back, I placed my tongue squarely in cheek and suggested that people buy second homes in Detroit, where the average price of a house is now just $7,500. Well, it's actually happening. In fact, opportunistic couples are buying up entire blocks and turning them into little urban oases. From th...

I cannot wrap my head around this op-ed by Jackson Diehl in Sunday's Washington Post. The theme? President Obama is starting to look a lot like President Bush: The Bush administration pushed through the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 by suggesting that opponents didn't want to stop another al-Qaeda...

Hey, great to see you here! Can we get you something to drink? Something to read about food? How about a quick tour of why MoJo went open source, or more about the two fabulous working moms who run this joint? Yeah, we thought you'd like that. David Corn's on Twitter raising hell at White House pres...

I saw this little gem on National Review online. I think it says a lot about modern conservative thought. Stick with me all the way through; I think it's worth it. The doctors, lawyers, engineers, executives, serious small-business owners, top salespeople, and other professionals and entrepreneurs w...

Black people never run out of conspiracy theories. This is because there's no way we could have ended up in this position without diabolical whites plotting against us all the time. Usually, the theories are either just plain paranoid (e.g. the CIA floods the inner city with crack) or perhaps better...

It's hard to believe anyone really writes checks anymore, but apparently they do, and lots of bad ones--enough that collecting on them has turned into a big business. And according to ProPublica, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the bad-check collection biz may be your local prosecutor. District ...