The Clock Tower at City Hall, Philadelphia as seen from my window on 3/30/08 Still Another Day: XVII/Men The truth is in the prologue. Deat...

This is a lovely piece by filmmaker and blogger Bob Cesca (who also contributes to The Huffington Post). Moving imagery--and the equally-...

Hee hee! Great mashup. (H/T Biodun Iginla)

Frank Zappa originally wrote this beautiful neoclassical piece, entitled Outrage at Valdez , for the Cousteau Society's documentary Alas...

Comedian Bill Maher appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews yesterday (you can watch the video clip here ), discussing, among o...

"Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings,...

We all know about John McCain's endorsement by John Hagee, he of the anti-Catholic bigotry , inflammatory sermons, and general End Times...

TRex takes the words out of my mouth (mine were considerably nastier, actually, so hats off to the gentleman lizard king for being polite):...

In response to my recent post (appearing here and at Cogitamus ) about the killing of the Republican brand, Lisa Simeone posted a comment q...

This sorely-needed funny break in what has become a far-too-serious primary season is brought to you by the letter Lee and the numbers ador...

Nice job , pendejos . What on Earth did you expect would happen when you handed the keys to a low-IQ, dry-drunk, functional illiterate with...

I'll let the gentleman who posted this awesome piece of music history clue you in: This three minute film was created by Frank Zappa an...

BREAKING: In a stunning blog post (!) at the Huffington Post, Barack Obama addresses the inflammatory statements made last year by now-ret...

Megan Williams, about whom I wrote last year, is a young black woman whom several career criminals kidnapped, raped, and brutally tortured ...

This is dedicated to my partner in EschaCon Crime (a monstrously funny theropod if ever there was one), as well as anyone who's feeling...

It's hard to speculate--with any degree of certainty, I mean--but something tells me this 1988 scenario might have played out a little ...

From the inimitable Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The writers are back! The writers are back!

Stop whatever you're doing and head over to Jon Swift , okay? Just do it: But that is just one of many endorsements that Obama has refu...

The video quality here is...well, it's pretty bloody terrible, to be honest. But this Montana is such a great version of a fantastic s...

"He should be forced to address it [the issue] everywhere he campaigns." -- McCain spokesman Dan McLagan on then-presidential cand...