Matt Yglesias: If you’re lucky, of course, your house is undestroyed and it happens to be well-stocked by canned goods and bottled water. But say it’s not. It’s not like...
Sometime late Saturday evening, James Cameron’s sci-fi eco-epic Avatar crossed $700 million at the box office. It’s a pretty astounding figure, and it’s worth just briefly looking at some of...
As I’ve written before, the way that the media counts medals is ridiculous. Gold>silver>bronze, but you’d never know that since they just add up the total number of medals and...
The latest film from Roman Polanaski has been hailed as a return to form for the director behind Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Pianist — a taut political thriller that...
Via Jason Fagone, I came across this story about the rise and fall of a duo of American muckrakers — Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi — looking to make a...
There I was, struggling to come up with something to blog about — seriously: I don’t care about health care reform or this damn summit — when BAM: Deadspin blogs...
