Balancing Frogs

Fascinating little headline I just saw: 'Idol' Star Clay Aiken to Reveal He Is Gay Now, I'm pretty indifferent to Clay Aiken. A...

I've been a fan of The Comics Curmudgeon for some time, but I've been feeling lately that it's just not enough to satisfy my n...

Thanks to the Internet, every day people who follow American politics get to read such eloquence as this: It's pretty funny that how bad...

She Stole His Spleen, Then His Heart is an absolutely wonderful headline which could even be adapted as a Lyttle Lytton contest entry. But...

If Barack Obama loses this election,* lots of political junkies, cultural commentators and op-ed pundits are going to say that the GOP's...

This weekend I watched a Chinese-style Taiwanese-language opera outdoors on Dihua St. in Taipei. The opera was directly inspired by the Nic...

A fascinating nugget of wisdom from a Washington Post online chat about Obama rumors : Cleveland, Tenn.: My Uncle Glenn, who raised me and w...

I saw The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian on Sunday. I was a completely virgin viewer. Not only have I never seen the first Narnia ...

Political bloggers are all abuzz over what Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee member Fred Hobbs (note party affiliation) has to ...

Wherever blog comment threads turn to politics, the general intelligence level takes a nosedive. I'm okay with that - I made my peace w...

Zompist refuses to predict the Presidential race . I think the November election is still wide open. Well, I'm a lot stupider than him, ...

I just read James Hynes' Kings of Infinite Space . An office satire. With undead creatures. And sex. (Not in the same scenes.) My of...