Big Father is watching you.

Of all the whiskeys that ever tangoed the foxtrot, this is the whatthefuckest of them all. [THX: Cody Barstow at Mojo City News.]

Oh gods – this is freakin’ brutal. And, no doubt, literally true, word for word. Morford has been reading Campaign Trail again, sounds like…. [THX: myths_americana.]

Cody Barstow at Mojo City News is worried – very, very worried – about the Bird Flu, and has developed a series of pieces addressing the likelihood of pandemic, damage and mortality rates, policy failures, policy prescriptions, and then some. I’m not quite sure how terrified to be. I know a couple folks at the CDC who seem concerned, but

First, see mediastar‘s post on “acting white.” This is a comment on that thread that I thought I’d pull to the top here. __________________ What’s interesting is that the “diction” issue you describe, while having obvious implications for speakers of “black” dialects, also applies to a lot of white people. I grew up in a part of NC where the

Where is this house? Man, I need to see this in person. [THX: fikshun.]

acrosticunivers has some thoughts on the AL MVP. Here’s what I have to say about that: As bad as I hate the Yankees, I just couldn’t make myself vote the MVP to somebody who doesn’t play defense. You compared all those stats – but how many assists did Ortiz have? How many runners did he throw out at the plate?

You know how you call customer service, and the automated system always makes you enter your phone number (or account number or whatever). Right. So why is it that 100% of the feckin’ time, when you finally get a human on the line, they immediately ask you for your phone number (or account number or whatever you already entered into

He said his favorite singer in a small twin-engine plane hit the water in Wisconsin and had died that very day Everybody in the room knew Jerry’s favorite tune and we all began to cry…. Don Dixon has made a new track available for free download here. (Scroll down toward the bottom of the page and click on the link

My bud mediastar has cranked up her own blog, which I believe will serve as a support resource for a book project she’s working on (she’s the one who wrote that fantastic USA Today article I forwarded around a few weeks back). She’s been at it less than a week, and already I’m impressed. Bookmark it, and if you’re an

Hickory what?! If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s hysterical. It gets funnier as it goes along….

The old man walked six miles to school every day. Uphill. Both ways. In three feet of snow. During the hottest part of summer. Ate dirt and was grateful for it. History got worse every time he thought about it. I have $2.32 in checking. Nothing in savings. My next paycheck is two weeks away, and it won’t cover the

And proud as a peacock! Go Mountaineers!

First, Media Life offers up this little around-the-horn on Judy Miller’s “retirement.” Of particular interest are Lynne Duke’s (WashPost) remarks: … [Miller’s] style is indeed ‘pushy,’ as she herself suggested. But would an aggressive, high-decibel male reporter be embroiled in all the controversy in which Miller finds herself? It is a question that some of her friends raise, for they