In case you were watching a What Not to Wear marathon on A&E and missed it, yesterday was one more weird-ass day in the NFL. Fun, but weird. For the first time since 2002 there was a tie. The Bungles and Eagles slugged slogged it out for 75 minutes, and in the end neither team could quite outsuck the other.
Read moreIn an NPR piece the other day on the return of Newt Gingrich, reporter Lynn Neary noted that some Republicans are attempting to lure the former House speaker back into the party leadership as the head of the Republican National Committee. Newt says the chances of that happening are pretty much zero, as he’s focusing all his time and energy
Read moreIn case you missed it, Colbert had an unusually literary moment the other night. The festivities commence at the 1:41 mark. This post is dedicated to all Scrogues who did their MA theses on Austen. *cough* Booth *cough*
Read moreNo, nobody at your old high school is dying to talk to you. I’m not normally a litigious guy, but hat’s off to this class-action suit. Classmates.com is not only annoying as hell, they’re apparently making stuff up, to boot. (And before you ask, I’ve tried desperately to unsub. But I joined a bunch of years ago with an e-mail
Read moreWe have a new WordsDay graphic because somebody *cough* Mackowski *cough* insisted that we needed one. So here it is. Now, a little fun. The first S&R reader to accurately identify the 15 authors shown, in order from left to right, wins … well, our enduring admiration. It ain’t much, but what do you want for nothing? Submit your answers
Read moreRush Limbaugh’s new contract with Clear Channel is worth $400M through the end of 2016.
Read moreFor those of you who have been digging on eMusic lately, we have a few more TunesDay Recommendifications for your consideration. We’ll start with Jigsaw Days from The Well Wishers. This new release from Jeff Shelton (ex-Spinning Jennies) is among the top Power Pop releases of the year to date, and in addition to recalling artists like The Posies, Teenage
Read moreA few nights ago John McCain treated us all to a masterful concession speech. He was gracious, articulate, noble – he said all the right things and struck all the right chords as the nation and his party look toward the future in the wake of an epic statement on the part of the American electorate. If you’re like me,
Read moreLee Camp is going to hell for this one.
Read moreThe Democrats are like the dog who chases cars, and then one day he catches one. Holy crap – now what? For the longest time progressives were the opposition, the outsiders, and were in a sort of no-lose position. It’s easy to bitch (especially when you’ve got an administration like Bush’s providing more targets than you have ammo to shoot
Read moreI’m about to share with you the most humiliating moment of my life. This morning something deeply disturbing happened to my 13 year-old nephew, Christopher. He got a text message, which had been forwarded around from person to person, from one of his best friends, a girl we’ll call Ashley. It went something like this: America has elected a nigger.
Read moreTrusting is one thing I don’t know When it comes to the campaigning men But I’ll meet you at the election When I vote for the hope of this land – Sean Kelly You may have noticed, if you’ve been paying attention, that the music industry has gone to hell of late. It isn’t that nobody is making good music
Read moreElection Day is nearly upon us. We’ve already noted some of the voter suppression shenanigans out there and there’s been a lot more since that posting. Frankly, I expect Tuesday to be a freakin’ circus on this front. You can help make Election Day a cleaner experience for all of us. We’ve added a couple badges at the top of
Read moreBack during the DNC S&R hooked up with the team from Zero Coordinate and EccentricProduction on the Tent State march and our interview with Lee Camp. Natalie, Paul and Chris were in town primarily to work on a documentary – a production I’ve been waiting on pretty anxiously. Part 1 arrived today, and it provides a perspective on the process
Read moreWhen we launched Michael Tracey’s series on the Ramsey case we frankly didn’t know what to expect. We hoped for intelligent engagement around the essay’s central thesis – a runaway media and what it tells us about the sad state of our democracy. We feared that the place would be overrun by nutters. In the end, though, neither our hopes
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