Missing the Titanic, no, the Hindenberg
Oh, now the New York Times deigns to mention Stephen Colbert's skewering of the president. But only, it would seem, because people are talking about it online. And you and I are not the...
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The Colbert non-report
Tim Grieve in this morning's Salon War Room: What Colbert did to the president and the press corps is news: He didn't shoot anybody Saturday night at the Hinckley Hilton, but he...
What if they invited the president to a roast...
Stephen Colbert has balls of steel. He not only roasted the president to cinders at the White House Correspondents' Association banquet while the man sat stone-faced scant yards away, but he did it without losing...
The 6.585 x 10²¹ ton elephant in the room
I began thinking about global warming again today, sparked by a posting by Christopher Bigelow—or rather, by a couple of the complacent jackasses who responded to the post. (Sorry if they're friends of...
Sine-waving goodbye: from George III to George Washington to George W. Bush
It makes me sick to my stomach to read the words of America's brilliant and articulate founding fathers and to contemplate the treatises our newest King George would write were he ever to take...
Science vs. Norse mythology
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