Chase Utley is possibly my favorite non-Cardinal because of that moment. Biden ( who maybe could've had a successful career as a stand-u...

Here's two DK diaries that are worth a look. 30 Reasons why Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize But he hasn't accomplished anything...

Is it electronic music? Is it rock? Is it jazz? Who knows, all I know is holy shit that's fast.

Muhammad Ali apparently had an Irish great-grandfather. He visits; the Irish, of course, love it.

Andrew Sullivan gets letters. ( via ) A political and demographic re-alignment is happening before their eyes, and they are reaching back i...

No one had ever photographed Barack Obama and Albert Pujols in the same room together. I am now able to accept , finally, at this late date,...

I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW to grasp at the edges of an idea to strip away to fumble flounder to guess struggle frantic ...

Check out this BBC report from Tehran during public riots/general strike/madness. A government minder of some sort starts to arrest the BBC...

This is fucking cool. Instant classic. I also found this (an mp3) via this website , which I must have bookmarked ages ago and forgot abou...

Bartok/Music for strings, percussion, & celesta And here's a Youtube clip (no embed link, sorry) of Portishead playing about 2/3 of...

Matt Taibbi in the Rolling Stone on AIG and the American plutocracy. Go read. Now. I'll wait. ( via ) * * * * * Two months into his te...

Limbaugh vs. Gingrich . No points awarded for sumo wrestling metaphors. (Besides, circular firing squad references are so much funnier....)

Harper's sent DFW to first the Illinois State Fair and second a Caribbean cruise. The cruise piece is the title article in the collectio...

This NYT article (via Atrios) runs down the huge AIG debacle. The first paragraph mentions that losses at AIG are dwarfing pretty much ever...

Chris Matthews rebuking Darrell Issa for the childish "Democrat Party" thing is not the most impressive thing about this video. (A...