Checking in on the last of my Christmas orders from Amazon, and all of a sudden it looks like they’re in overdrive. I had a few preorders set up from way back, and everything just slammed into shipping soon status. Amazon warns me they’ll get here after Christmas. (Which is mostly OK, since most of […]
Following up on the warrantless wiretapping issue, it seems like more details are starting to circulate. I think maybe warrantless surveillance might be a more accurate description, since more than wiretapping seems to be in play. Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo and emptywheel at Next Hurrah both have posts up trying to fill in […]
Chris Gossett, whose Red Star is one of my favorite comics ever, has just launched the Project Antares blog to keep folks up to date on the status of Red Star-related projects. Since it’s Goss, and the man has a bit of a verbose streak, you can also expect plenty of personal anecdotes and political […]
OK, so the New York Times comes out with a story that President Bush has authorized wiretaps and surveillance on American citizens without getting warrants. Only took them a year of sitting on the story to do so, but I’m going to let go of the fact that they’re late to the party and celebrate […]
I don’t think I ever would have gotten up off my butt five years ago to start Not News if it weren’t for The West Wing, and I never would have cared about the show as much as I did if it weren’t for the amazing job John Spencer did as Leo McGarry. Aaron Sorkin […]
So Pattie and I are driving home the other night and ‘XPN starts playing this Eric Clapton song. From the title alone I figure I can relate – the song’s called “So Tired” from his latest album, Back Home. But then we start hearing the lyrics, and we’re cracking up. The rock and blues god […]
Finally got around to reading the first hardcover volume of Marvel’s Supreme Power series. It contains the contents of the first 12 issues, or the first two softcover collections, in a larger size that really benefits Gary Frank’s art. I read the first softcover and reviewed it for theLogBook, but decided to switch to the […]
Found an interesting essay on neo-pragmatism (e.g., Richard Rorty and other contemporary pragmatists) last night via my Technorati watch on references to Dewey. Head on over to Fluid Imagination to read the essay and the comment thread, into which I couldn’t help but stick my nose.
This is a belated post, but I figure I should point out that my brother Brian has been the namesake for not one but two bit characters in DC Comics over the last several months. Marc Andreyko named a federal agent (or is he?) after him in Manhunter, and Geoff Johns made him a prison […]
There’s been some kerfluffle lately over Dan Froomkin’s “White House Briefing” column at washingtonpost.com. It seems the paper’s ombudsman thinks the column is too liberal, and the political editor doesn’t like the title. A few sites in the liberal blog sphere have reacted in exasperation over the issue. A large undercurrent seems to be along […]