The fight between humanity and the Chimera spills over onto the PlayStation Portable next week with the release of Resistance: Retribution. Developed by Sony Bend, the developers behind the Syphon Filter series, Retribution follows the story of former British Royal Marine James Grayson in the wake o...

Wednesday... what's in store today? Sam Stein: Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood hit back hard on Monday to charges from White House critics that President Barack Obama's economic policies -- focused on leveraging government spending to stimulate demand -- had exacerbated the recession and cons...

Your one stop pundit shop. Bob Herbert: The American dream was alive and well and seemingly unassailable. But somehow, following the oil shocks, the hyperinflation and other traumas of the 1970s, Americans allowed the right-wingers to get a toehold — and they began the serious work of smotheri...

Art Gizmodo just concluded a Photoshop contest in which contestants were invited to submit Ways to Hilariously Ruin the Watchmen Movie. My favorite is the shot with Jar Jar. I don’t know which I enjoy more: the idea of Jar Jar dying or the way every new hit film dredges up the old bitterness. ...

GOPnot4me: Postcards from the recession. 35 counties in the USA have half the foreclosures Welcome Back to Pottersville: Top Ten Conservative Books of All Time Electronic Frontier Foundation: A how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying. Seeing the Forest: What's going o...

JOBLESS: Everyone’s been talking about the interactive map published by The New York Times on unemployment rates in the U.S. This instructive piece of info is useful for finding the areas of the country most affected by downturns in manufacturing and housing bubbles. Unfortunately the map is a...

Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Healthcare Equality Index - “a joint project of GLMA and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The HEI provides a quality indicator for healthcare related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, beginning with the hospital industry. The survey foc...

Check out what my classy friends are blogging about: 25 reasons to hate Face Book (AfroJ acks) Chris Brown has just been charged with TWO felonies for his assault on Rihanna (Anything Hollywood) Aisleyne Horgan gets paid for second boob job (Celebrity Body Gossip) Pathetic: Rihanna Forgives Chris Br...

Art The winners of the 16th annual Spectrum Awards, celebrating the best in fantastical art, have been announced. The covers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer #14 and Annihilation: Conquest #5 took the prizes in the comic category. Comics Jinni runs down the Based-on-a-Graphic-Novel Film Hall of Fame Film...

It's action and hijinks in the Middle East as 50 Cent and his pals return for another madcap adventure in THQ's 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. Perhaps there's no madcap hijinks, but you have to admit the concept is a bit far-fetched. A shady Middle-Eastern concert promoter pays Fiddy and his crew with ...