RIP, Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze has died. He was 57 years old and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer. I think everyone around my age has seen Dirty Dancing many, many times. Link…

Your Pop Culture Minute

Kanye West, the guy who said "George Bush doesn't care about black people," interrupted an award speech by very young country/pop star Taylor Swift because he didn't think she deserved…

ABC News To Teabaggers: YOU LIE!

There's lots of numbers floating around about the attendance for yesterday's Million Thousand Moron March. One that has been widely reported on conservative blogs is 2 million (ironically or perhaps…

The Speech Was A Game-Changer

Some survey data after Obama's primetime address to Congress on health care reform shows big jumps in popularity for President Obama and for health care reform. First the Daily Kos/Research…