Charter Communications Sucks

It sucks big time. Each year prices go up. Each year the number of channels goes down. And they channels we lose are never the ones we don't watch. You know the two dozen Spanish language stations or the 50 different iterations of MTV/VH1. Charter Communications sucks/

Ranches and Rivers

Joe Ely and Joel Guzman

You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive

Polk Salad Annie

I think it's actually called poke sallet. But this Tony Joe White song is great.

Know Your Rights

Here's a useful chart if you are stopped by police.

Some Privilege

This guy's skin color has really led to a life of ease.

Ahh, the Academy

The campus rape paranoia culture has grown ridiculous.

Turning Good Minds to Mush

And empowering the worst among us. American colleges.

The Bravest Man In America?

Could it be Russell D. Moore?

RIP Lorenzo Semple Jr.

He wrote several classic movies, but he's best know for his work on the 1960s Batman TV series.

Common Core and Colleges

The race to the bottom.

Playboy Interviews Stan Lee

And it's about time.

The World's Largest Solar Plant

If it is blinding pilots, I wonder what it is doing to birds.

Tom Jones Covers Leonard Cohen

The New Doctor Who

Peter Capaldi is getting off to a great start

Men in Salsa Classes

Might just be there to pick up women. shocking, I know.

About Those Domestic Violence Numbers

They may be just a little bit wrong.

If Jim Ross Did the Commentary

on Jamaican club daggering

Poverty and Hunger

Research indicates that the lower a man's income the larger his preference in breasts. It also shows that hungry men prefer larger breasts than well fed men.

Oops

MSNBC retracts hit piece on Rand Paul.

E.J. Dionne Is a Nitwit

Brian Doherty finds the latest evidence.

The Big Sleep

Seventy five years ago this week, Raymond Candler revolutionized detective fiction.

The Nighthawks: Little Sister

Featuring the great Jimmy Thackery on guitar.

Pro-Sickness, Pro-Deformity, Pro-Blindness, Pro-Death

What anti-GNO activists are really fighting for.

Will Georgia Legalize Medical Marijuana

Well, not really medical marijuana but a medicine derived from cannabis.

The Year of the Whores?

The BBC seems confused by Chinese New Year.

Brad DeLong Is an Ethics-Free, Partisan Hack (Part of a Series)

Rod Dreher has become the Berkeley professor's latest target for insults.

Raising 12 Self Reliant Children

Francis L. Thompson explains how he and his wife did it.

The IRS Targest Conservatives Again

This time in Hollywood.

What's Spanish for "Black List"?

Maria Conchita Alonso gets booted from play because of her political beliefs.

Los Angeles Library to Offer High School Diplomas

Interesting idea. I hope that other libraries might take a look at it.

Even Mother Jones Agrees

Rachel Maddow is full of shit.

Krugman Flip Flops

That was then. This is now.

Industry, Not Enviromentalists, Killed the Light Bulb

With the help of Republicans.

Whiny Young People

They existed in the 1800s, too.

Crumpet: A Very British Sex Symbol

Warning: NSFW!