New Orleans , three years ago. Oh, come on , yes you do. No? Okay, I think I've got some photos...I'm sure they'll jog your mem...

Freshly breaking via the Moscow Times . To whom do you suppose Prime Minister Putin is referring *cough* when he says "a U.S. preside...

Goosebumps in August. *sigh* What a gorgeous voice. * Who is a serious Dreamgirls fan. (H/T Petulant )

I don't know if the networks aired Dennis Kucinich's rousing and righteous speech--if they did, I must have missed it--but here it i...

And P lease U ntangle M y A rguments. Via Rumproast : "He hasn't earned my vote...he never calls...I'm a tiny bit open...my bal...

How to deal with our economic woes? Mr. Stranahan says Americans should follow John McCain's lead and get hitched to the owners of cou...

Afghan citizens love their children too. It's hardly an exotic, abstruse concept. Nor is it a new one. And yet : US-led coalition forc...

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in b...

So, TRex and I were talking on the phone this afternoon. Me: Did you see the track this hurricane has been following? It goes one way,...

"When my Russian mail-order bride divorced me in 2001, it had absolutely nothing to do with my shriveled, undersized... brain ." L...

(H/T lolpresident )

Chalk one up for us intrepid consumers: biotech giant Monsanto is selling off its Posilac (rBGH) division. In other words, though the battl...

This complaint letter to Proctor and Gamble was selected for one of PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice awards last year, and it's one of my ...

How awesome is Christopher Walken? This awesome: I first saw this Fatboy Slim video last year and loved watching one of my favorite actors ...

The elegant American actress--and soon-to-be princess--Grace Kelly, wearing ice-blue satin* Oooh, the Huffington Post has definitely got my...

Really, Speaker Pelosi--stop whatever you're doing and pick up your Blackberry: you need to call Congress back from their various beach ...

This is a dark, fuzzy video of Frank Zappa and his crew playing at the Mudd Club in New York. At the end, there's a bit of fanboy melee...

Beware the spew of Chlamydosaurus kingii , aka The Frilled Dragon As a self-described word-wonk, I'm always up for the bite of nice, che...

Alternet brings us the brilliant Matt Taibbi riffing on John McCain , who's now in the spotlight finding his--or, at least, someone'...

This is a wonderful Very Vintage Frank music/film compilation. The piece has a witty, art-film quality thanks to its black-and-white footag...