By • Nov 24,2009

Black Friday tips

Farhad Manjoo has a solid list of “don’ts” over at Slate. Don’t pick up a ridiculously expensive HDMI cables from Monster, for example (which I’ve written about before). But I...

By • Nov 23,2009

Friedman Argument

I meant to get to this last week when it came up over cocktails at The Passenger,* but I have a mild proposal: I suggest changing the fallacy we now...

By • Nov 20,2009

A Golden Age of TV

It’s like Peggy Noonan was reading the League! I feel gratitude to the largely unheralded network executives and producers who gave it to us. The first golden age can be...

By • Nov 20,2009

Brett Favre: History’s Greatest Monster

The Iraqis are using Brett Favre to taunt American soldiers. Goddddddammit. According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as...

By • Nov 19,2009

Palinoia

Megan coins a new term: Y’all well know that I really don’t like Sarah Palin.  In fact, more than one of you has yelled at me about this.  And I...

By • Nov 19,2009

Aliens, dude. Aliens.

Sully: And I hope to be up half the night trying to write a post on the great mystery of the stories about Trig, stories that have bedeviled the blogosphere...