Bummer. Published on: 09/26/2006 “The Boondocks,” the edgy comic strip by Aaron McGruder that’s currently in reruns, will end in November, Universal Press Syndicate announced Monday. In March, McGruder announced a six-month sabbatical to concentrate on other projects, including the animated “Boondocks” series that runs on the Atlanta-based Cartoon Network and will remain in production. The comic was supposed to

Damn. Keith Olbermann has now thoroughly established himself as the best journalist on television. (Granted, given the current state of affairs that’s half a compliment at best.) His latest beatdown of the Bush Lie Factory is simply a marvel. Finally, real must-see TV…

I’m not sure what the polls look like right now in the Virginia Senatorial race, but the wolves are circling the Allen camp. A couple new revelations (well, actually, it’s one revelation and one allegation that has the stench of ugly truth about it) are raising even more questions about whether Sen. George is and always has been a flaming

I didn’t realize this was a problem until recently, but apparently there’s evidence that Greenies are very bad for your dog. We’d been giving them to Ronan, who has a history of sensitive stomach issues, for some time, and I guess we didn’t think that Greenies were part of the problem because he’d had a tendency to get sick before

I have another post up for the IABC blog – this one about an event Angela and I attended last weekend at Raffaldini, one of the great new Yadkin Valley vineyards. This one was kind of hard to write, because while they’re doing a great job in almost every way, one trainwreck can ruin it all. Have a read. And

My friend Jack, who has been negotiating some major life changes of late, wrote me this the other day, under the subject line “Nietzsche knew the feeling….;)”: Made me think of our conversation from the other day…. “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely

Check this, from BoingBoing: Thursday, September 21, 2006 Ex-RIAA agency “can’t find” artists it owes money to, like Public Enemy Fred von Lohmann sez, SoundExchange (which is in charge of collecting and distributing royalties collected from satellite radio and webcasting) can’t seem to locate the artists to whom these royalties are to be paid. If the monies are not disbursed,

Normally I hate Bob Knight. But this is is fun, especially if you hate Oklahoma.

I was just informed by my ISP that somebody managed to gain access to a password and that they then were able to send a gazillion spams from my sam @ lullabypit.com account. I have no feckin’ clue how this happened, but will certainly be trying to find out in the coming days. If you’re a victim of spam that

On Monday, the New York Times published a story about two of Lance Armstrong’s former teammates who are now saying they used the banned EPO prior to the 1999 Tour de France. Armstrong was a tad miffed: “I think it’s a pretty nasty attempt by The New York Times to link me to doping through somebody else’s admission,” Armstrong said.

Once upon a time Keith Olbermann was one of my favorite sports guys. Watched him every night. When he moved to MSNBC, I was skeptical, as you’d imagine. Anybody who reads me at all knows I’m not a huge fan of hiring entertainers to handle the news. I had no idea that he was about to become the new Edward

Hmmm. Does this seem about right to you?

Our friend J. Stephen O’Brien just passed along this great new expression: He’s nervouser than a bleeder in a cat-catching contest. Yup. We Southerners do have a knack for colorful talk…

You’ve probably noticed that I frequently link in images that illustrate whatever I’m talking about. Usually those images come from some news or corporate archive somewhere, but I recently used an image from a blogger/artist/photographer named Scott Morris to illustrate my extended rant on our War on Education. Scott noted a lot of unexplained hits, investigated, and e-mailed to ask

xn is way too kind with his praise here, but one thing’s for sure – his take on my education screed the other day really illustrated why the comment threads are often the best part of the blog experience. Take a second to track his response and note my add-on…