OK, one reason Your Humble Blogger gets all confused is that it’s so difficult to tell the real phony journalists from the phony real journalists. Not that Bill O’Reilly is a journalist these days, I understand. He’s a … somethin’….

Nathan Newman is pissed off. Yes, it may be intemperate to call anti-unionism the date rape of corporate crime, but it must be frustrating as hell to go through all the conversations about what unions are doing wrong and why…

Those Gentle Readers who have an interest in matters scientific or Canadian should probably read The Wrathful Dispersion controversy: A Canadian perspective, over at q_pheever’s Roguish Chrestomathy. It’s a good outsider’s primer to the controversy here about what to teach…

A quick note—when I wrote the last post I had forgotten that Left Blogovia has proclaimed it Blog Against Racism day. This sort of thing actually gets up my nose, particularly since December First is still World AIDS Day, which…

John Scalzi over at Whatever came up with a meme that seemed entertaining to me: pick a song that has been covered a lot, and review five cover versions. Mr. Scalzi picks “Unchained Melody”, leading to a bit of discussion…