Humanizing The Vacuum

You can always count on Democrats to blow it when they own DC. Jonathan Chait shows how a Democratically controlled Congress devolves to it...

Guess what ? More colleagues looking for work.

(The third part of a discussion on the new album Yes, among other PSB-related esoterica). Hey guys - Until Thomas chimes in, I'll hold b...

Scott, Thomas - Excuse my delay: I've a houseguest this weekend, of whom I can say has a great ear. Upon hearing the line "You don...

Three guys who've written or published close to thirty million words on the Pet Shop Boys join forces to discuss the Boys' new album...

Excuse the light posting: I've been on vacation this week. But if you ignore Matt Taibbi's hysterical prose you'll actually get ...

This is the man praised by the faithful as the "philosopher pope"? A determined, spiteful dismissal of empirical data ill-suits a...

Sad . I liked her, but having never seen her on stage I don't know whether she ever delivered a film performance that lingers in the min...

I have to think about some of its central points, but Clay Shirky's essay on how the Internet destroyed print journalism and how the ma...

I was reminded yesterday of how well this song has aged.

"Lurid" is a tame word to describe what happens in Narrow Rooms, James Purdy's 1978 novel about a young man's perverse e...

A few questions are bullshit, as all questionnaires are.  I scored, somewhat surprisingly, a 237.