The Sketchy Santas blog confirms what prior generations could only suspect: that Santa Claus is a walking, talking, jiggling, ho-ho-ho'ing nightmare for children and the adults who compel them to pose for holiday-themed photographs.
What can I say to this but here, here: I despise Joe Lieberman. I always have, but every time I hear about him again, I despise him more. Treacherous, self-satisfied, self-aggrandizing, self-admiring - happy to make millions of fellow-citizens worse off than they would otherwise be, [...] 
I want to extend happy birthday wishes to Jennifer Connelly, who turned 39 today, the day on which I was, quite by coincidence, first exposed to the glaring shortcomings and talent-wasting realities of the 2008 remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still, a terrible film [...] 
Greg Craven has what seems impossible -- a promising way to change the way we talk about climate change. Watch and pass it along:
There is now a blog of "The Canyon," which is a geological feature of the campus of Reed College -- or rather a geological featurette, given its diminutive size.
For those still hemming and hawing over whether to watch The Road, and specifically for those who are loath to see another film adaptation crap all over its source material, please know that this trailer (embedding disabled) gives a very misleading idea of the [...] Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, [...]
With sharks on the decline worldwide, and the seas generally being cleansed of life forms in favor of huge whorls of trash, just as you were starting to feel some confidence about diving into the nearest body of seawater, word comes of a [...] 
Even knowing that fifty million Frenchman and roughly as many music critics can indeed be wrong, it would require no small perversity to eschew a recording that has won almost universal acclaim among critics and listeners. Such was my thinking when, upon seeing Sufjan Stevens's [...] 
A far-flung friend took and shared this photo illustrating, in candid and sunlit space-time somewhere in New Orleans, three concepts that are tightly bound together: religious, nuns, and dead end. 
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published 150 years ago today. It revolutionized the science of biology, and arguably altered the way humankind has thought of itself ever since. 
This week, I am squirreled away in a super-secret redoubt somewhere in Cascadia, so blogging will continue to be even sparser than usual. [...] 
The Mentos ads alluded to here always did seem to lack something. I always assumed it was a reason to exist or a non-annoying characteristic, but no, this send-up makes clear that what they were missing was a blast of full facial Jesus. 
