Alas, a blog

Let’s face it, things are not going very well for right-wing radio these days. Rush Limbaugh has been reduced to a national laughingstock, while Sean Hannity is best known for simply repeating talk...

The dance scene really begins two minutes into this video (after a really odd bit of abled-characters-pretending-to-be-disabled-for-comic-effect which falls completely flat). In the scene, Steve C...

Oh, Hollywood, I love you.
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(Cross-posted at Modern Mitzvot.)

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This is an open thread; use it to post what you like, with whomever you like, for as long as you like. Self-linking is beautiful, baby, beautiful.
Via Racism Review, the very welcome news that Obam...

Via Womanist Musings: Men’s rights advocate Glenn Sacks has gotten some press for protesting these ads, which were created by The Family Place and were displayed on buses in Dallas through November...

Julie the Girl Detective has a thoughtful post right below this one about the American Thanksgiving mythos, the enduring myth that Sarah Josepha Hale1 created in the pages of Godey’s Ladies Book.
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I know this is ridiculously late, but I was visiting relatives in the Bay Area this weekend, and didn’t have much time to blog. Plus, traffic was so bad that each trip took over 9 hours. (Usually i...

I understand why Americans respond with a certain level of skepticism to folks (politicians and outspoken pundits) whose philosophy seems to include pacifism-at-all-costs.
I mean, the problem with ...