2009-03-06     Derrida the DVD
2009-01-20     Will The Brother Work It Out?
2008-10-14     Notes on the Kama Sutra
2008-06-04     That Bo Diddley Sound
2008-05-21     In Praise of the Skank
2008-03-21     Dirty Minds
2008-02-27     Vulgarity de luxe
2008-01-10     Learning Chinese
2007-12-14     Ashbery The Charlatan
2007-12-12     Imperfections of the Prius
2007-11-08     NYC0₂
2007-10-31     Reading the debate
2007-09-26     Ahmadinejad at the UN
2007-09-25     Ahmadinejad at Columbia
2007-08-21     Shucking and Jiving Beats Working For A Living
2007-05-15     Fear of Ghosts, Fear of Germs
2007-04-27     Ted Leo / LCD Soundsystem
2007-03-29     A note on “Islamofascism”
2007-03-21     WORST. LIST. EVER.
2007-03-07     The Shins / Deerhoof / Lily Allen

2008-06-23     Adventures of the N-Word
2008-06-15     To Be Kind
2008-06-10     Less Than Zero
2008-06-10     Moyers out-foxes a FOX errand boy
2008-06-03     Antony sings “If It Be Your Will”
2008-05-29     Harvey Korman, 1927-2008.
2008-05-20     Genealogy of a Dungeon Dad
2008-01-23     Where are we headed?
2008-01-23     Walking The Streets of Chicago
2008-01-09     Don’t cry for me, Rawalpindi
2007-12-19     Our Man in Baghdad
2007-12-17     Merry Christmas From Your President!
2007-11-12     Zinger of the year?
2007-10-23     Snooping Around
2007-10-16     Sinking the Pink
2007-10-10     Kiss me, kill me
2007-10-10     Enright on the McCanns
2007-10-04     I've never heard Aphex Twin...
2007-06-28     Heart of Dumbness
2007-06-27     Hillary prepares to go negative

2007-02-25     Everyone in the audience...
2007-02-25     And the award for Best Commenter goes to..
2007-02-25     Let them eat eye-candy!
2007-02-25     Wahlberg's evolution
2007-02-25     Metal on Metal
2007-02-25     Greg Kinnear, mock yourself!
2007-02-25     Cagematch: Mirren versus Cruz.
2007-02-25     Cagematch: Eastwood versus O'Toole.
2007-02-25     I'm Officially a Hater
2006-11-07     Let the investigations begin!

2009-03-26: We need to play them some records...

2009-03-09: Thank you both very much for your lengthy comments. For myself, I feel pretty confident that Derrida’s influence on pop culture is non-existent, while the comparison with Pasolini only reaffirms my sense that his appeal is primarily cultic and...

2009-01-28: One of my favorites was always, You don't have to be a Rockefeller to help a feller...

2009-01-28: I would want him to read just for pleasure and to stay human, so maybe Henry Roth's Call It Sleep...

2009-01-26: Hear, hear. But if Obama turns to the dreary work of actual politics, what will we Obama-watchers do with ourselves? I'm kind of hoping he'll do some Kennedy Center “command performance” event with unbelievably hip and underground...

2009-01-21: Remember when global warming was a crackpot doomsday scenario that went by the name of the “melting of the polar ice caps”? I sometimes wonder if it is simply the apocalyptic fantasy of our day...

2009-01-19: It's true that Obama has reached the pinnacle of success, unless you consider richest man in the world (currently Mukesh Ambani) higher than U.S. President. But I think the rubric of Happens To Be Black has a clear downside as well. First of all,...

2009-01-06: http://www.sciam.com/articl.....

2008-09-29: At what point does your baby believe his life...

2008-07-16: You should have left more room for audience participation here. The best I can do is: Heigl to Emmys: Don't Grey's me, bro. Grandpa's saber to Antiques Roadshow: Don't appraise me, bro. Senate to President (overriding veto of Medicare bill): ...