Lots of blogosphere buzz over a recent Heritage study purporting to find that Democrats are the real “party of the rich”—which is sort of odd given that, except at the absolute megabillions tippy-top of the income distribution, it’s well established that income and voting Republican are positively correlated. Until you look at what they’re actually […]

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I chat with author and comics critic Douglas Wolk about some of the themes raised in the recent World War Hulk crossover.

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In a response to an essay posted over the weekend at Daily Kos, The Weekly Standard‘s Dean Barnett provides a perfect example of how toxically warped up our foreign policy debate has become. Citing an article about the pullout of British troops from Basra, Kos diarist Jeffrey Feldman runs with a suggestion offered by British […]

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Last week, The Economist noted that Iran scholar Shaul Bakhash had come up blank in a search for one of Norman Podhoretz’s favorite Ayatollah Khomenei quotations: We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up […]

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Kriston links to two New York magazine features exemplifying one very sharp and one, shall we say, unhelpful approach to evaluating gender representation in modern art museums. The sharp feature is an immaculately argued article by art critic Jerry Saltz on the scant representation of women in MoMA’s permanent collection. It allows that, history being […]

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From Ann at Feministing comes an exchange on The O’Reilly Factor during which Laura Ingraham says: I talked a lot of families, too. I never hear a mother tell her daughter that her body is dangerous. I do hear mothers tell their daughters, you’ll be better off, less likely to commit suicide, less likely to […]

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I had meant—before being bacterially besieged—to say something about a very strange piece by MIchael Hirschhorn in the latest Atlantic, which argues that newspapers aren’t doing a good job of “giving readers what they want.” The main—actually, pretty much the only—evidence for this being the slim overlap between newspaper front pages and the contents of […]

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My friend Erica notes the Care Bear Stare metaphor popping up in Rod Dreher’s Dallas Morning News column. Maybe this one’s got legs. Adorable, stubby, furry legs!

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Doubtless this clip will be pulled shortly, but even by the standards of The Simpsons, this scene guest-starring comics legends Alan Moore, Dan Clowes, and Art Spiegelman is genius.

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Apologies for light blogging; your humble author is sick with whatever’s going around the DC folk. As a consolation prize, listen to the first track off the forthcoming Magnetic Fields album Distortion: “Three-Way.”

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