the woodshed

A couple of things today: First, I finally got my copy of cooking liberally in the mail from the divine SallyH - it is a collection of reci...

The smackdown Dave Neiwert goes up one side of Michelle Malkin and down the other with a barbed-wire wrapped rod of correction and it coul...

GOP to workers: Go Cheney yourselves This from the comments at Eschaton, the smartest, funniest and sexist bunch of moonbats in the blogos...

Tricks are the treat in Tokyo Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer With Halloween drawing near, thoughts turn to witches, sorcery, ghosts...

Fun and games While Dubya fumbles with his SCOTUS nomination, and we wait to see who the special counsel indicts (Libby for sure, Rove i...

That sound you hear is Joe Pulitzer spinning in his grave Via Ripley's Zen Cabin from Associated Press, we learn that Pravda has moved...

Dave Neiwert interview A long posting, but since the Strawberry Days review had to be limited in length, I couldn't include all the grea...

Objective vs. Subjective The good Dr. Berube has some interesting, if somewhat complex thoughts on the subject (or is it object?) And hey, a...

Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Dec. 7, 1941, is a day that will live in infamy for more than just the attack on Pearl Harbor. T...

Operation Enduring Blogger Canadian current affairs uber-comic Rick Mercer (This Hour has 22 minutes, Monday Report) has done some great s...

In your ear Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Paul Weller As Is Now V2 Japan, 2,520 yen As the driving force behind the Jam in the lat...

Bridges' brilliance lifts melancholy Irving adaptation Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer The Door in the Floor Three and half star...

Smoke'em if you got'em Now we learn the pernicious weed may inhibit cancer

Just say Mo' Study shows pot helps grow brain cells , improves memory. Hell, the next thing you know, scientists will be telling us th...

RIP Theodore Roosevelt Heller of Chicago, who asked we send acerbic letters to Republicans instead of flowers.

All schedenfreude, all the time The imminent flameout of the Bush junta is much on my mind these days. It's been quite a while since...

Pickin' and grinnin' Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Guitar: An American Life By Tim Brookes Read by Tim Brookes Blackstone ...

Another one for the good guys What do the Toronto Maple Leafs have that the Montreal Canadiens don't? Black and white photos of their la...

A first world democracy with third world religiousity and problems An interesting radio piece from the Australian Broadcasting Company, cou...

Flashback I went to see the String Cheese Incident last week (special thanks to Doug at Buffalo Records, purveyor of fine roots music, for s...