Eddie Izzard's delicious Cake or Death bit--via Lego animation. This morning, Mr. Litbrit was thoroughly engrossed in watching the Role...

Okay, so they're not sporting six-packs and sprayed-on leather jeans. Nor are they leaping around the stage or dodging airborne panties...

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. -- Howard Zinn , 1922-2010 An artist's only concern is to ...

Good evening, President Obama: If, by some infinitesimally tiny chance, the blogs Cogitamus or litbrit are on someone's feed--and tha...

A genuine leader is not a searcher for c o n s e n s u s but a molder of consensus . A nation that continues year after year to spend more ...

Satan apparently got wind of Pat Robertson's recent foul remarks about Haiti and was none too pleased. So he did what any good blogger...

I don't know about you, but when I think about what has already happened in the first two weeks of this strange, frustrating, and deeply...

Yellow Bird , sung here by The Mills Brothers, is a traditional Haitian tune based on a French berceuse , or cradle song. The lyrics were o...

This rare and wonderful footage, shot at Criteria Studios in Miami Florida in the fall of 1980, reportedly depicts the last rehearsal sessio...

(For the time being.) May the new December days be joyful and inspiring, With each moment full of love and news of good things, only; And t...

Above, watch CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Atkisson (a fellow UF Journalism School grad, by the way, though I doubt she'd remember m...

In honor of the upcoming feast-season that many of us are kicking off this Thursday, here's wonderful Wanda, who calls her tummy-roll ...

Nooooooo! In the name of all that is bittersweet, say it ain't so, Cadbury-- say it ain't so . It's bad enough that Hershey bou...

Question: if a reporter sets out to fact-check a document wherein no facts in fact exist, has he still engaged in fact-checking? Pity the ha...

This is an excerpt from a work-in-progress documentary telling the beautiful, powerful story of Keiko Fukuda, the highest-ranking judoka ali...

Shorter Far Too Many Members of Congress: "Health care, did you say? What the fuck is that? If it isn't on these pages , we can...

When it comes to the epic (and terribly comic) ongoing disaster known as the Teabagging Express, this Thursday's tiny tantrum in St. Pet...

A couple of hours ago, a chorus of beeping horns and argumentative shouting emanating from the street below penetrated my apartment building...

Forgive me, but it's hard for me to understand these parents who apparently believed a DVD could make their babies smarter and now want...

El Gato Negro has a message for our dear friends, the Blue Cross Dog ConservaDems: Remember all those people who worked so hard to get yo...