Beverly Garland died December 5th at age 82, and though her name may not be listed among Hollywood's greatest, for me she was and is. He...

I hated reading the following entry this morning from the blogger at Life on Swan Pond after TVA ... who lives in the midst of the massive ...

The United States marked the five-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. Over four million Iraqis had fled the country or been internally disp...

Without the commitment of many bloggers, environmental activists, and the efforts of residents directly affected by the enormous disaster fr...

I mean seriously, this has been a year of just weird wrongness. With just over a day and a half left, I'm actually getting nervous about...

Nearly a week after a massive toxic coal ash spill coated hundreds of acres and waterways with over a billion gallons of sludge, officials f...

Chad, Matt and Rob have an important meeting at the office in five minutes. Rob is nowhere to be found until he runs up covered, he says, in...

The nearly 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash which surged across hundreds of acres in Roane County and into local waterways this week will...

Writers in the blogging world have been hard at work gathering and reporting information from the enormous environmental disaster which saw ...

Here is the third and final installment for Christmas music 2008 (Check out parts One and Two ). I hope you've enjoyed the tunes - and ...

Hilzoy makes some points which seem to elude not only Congress, but many average Americans : " The financial executives helped cause th...

MTV and a video camera company called Flip have been hard at work to create a totally user-created broadcast on MTV, made by all kinds of yo...

Here is the second part of the annual Christmas music collection for 2008, this one has an all jazz theme. ( Part One is here .) Look for a ...

One day I'll seek the backstory for this holiday image. Maybe. For me (and many readers here) Santa Monkey has been a holiday tradition ...

The president does battle against the Shoe People in Baghdad. (many more variations on the Flying Shoe of Protest via Boing Boing .)

It is the List of All Lists of the Best of 2008 from Fimoculous . Yes, the annual collection of the best in '08 compiles selections in ...

Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee is learning that jumping up to shout "I can fix the automakers bailout program!!" was not his best...

Here's another in the annual offerings of Christmas music. I know there are personal faves for this time of year -- but I always like to...

Iconic sex symbol and famous Nashville native Bettie Page died yesterday at the age of 85. In the 1950s she was an underground sensation and...

A rattling racket on the back porch jolted me away from the computer keyboard in the early hours of the morning. "Dang cat," I tho...