My old friend Ben Weasel is having a bit of a comeback these days.  Maybe more than a bit; after toiling for a quarter of [...]

The other morning I woke up in the middle of an unusually vivid dream in which I’d somehow found myself trapped on the rotting hulk [...]

I celebrated the passage of the health care reform bill by going to see a movie about the Republican vision for health care.  Repo Men, [...]

For many years afterward I’d approach this date with deep, dark trepidation, convinced that some sort of disaster was certain to befall me. The one time, though, that an actual disaster happened, I never saw it coming.

by conventional standards, we are broke, or very nearly so. But thanks for noticing now, Republicans; a shame it escaped your notice when you — that’s right, you — were busily bankrupting us.

It’s been a couple days now and I’m still buzzing from the two Green Day shows earlier this week [July 27 and 28]. I feel [...]