In the news: Trayvon Martin, the GOP's "wars," Syria, Iraq, and much more.... [More]

Egos: Newt Gingrich, a certain Orlando basketball star, pSarah, Dick Cheney, women on testoterone, and more.... [More]

The Tories push, passive-aggressively, for a new name: the New Tories (not exactly original, but no one ever accused the neo-cons of that); the slow-mo Murdoch meltdown; arguments about Limbaugh vs. Maher; and nearly sixty years of history between the US and Iran/Persia may lead to either world war or world peace.... [More]

US politics, Rush Limbaugh, Stephen Harper on his way to doing a Mulroney, and Syria: The next Libya?... [More]

In the news: New Hampshire is staying gay-friendly, Obama's up and down, Assad is taking advice from Putin about being more democratic, while poltroons and asshats infest the planet, and the last remnant of WWI passes away.... [More]

The Week In Mittens, Obama averts environmental disaster while the GOP & Stephen Harper want it back, the bleeding has begun at News Corp, global warming can indeed snow on you, and Iran needs money more than war...All this and more, in the latest news digest.... [More]

Hail Eris! Many developments this week, both online and off-.   Google alters its search engine, making it "more personal"; Twitter slams the change; Google makes catty response.   LA City Council gingerly okays ordinance mandating the wearing of condoms on porn movie sets; porn star... [More]

The Iowa caucus, the end of a superpower, Gingrich's standards, and the long-term effect of Citizens United, among other things...... [More]

Modern-day Scrooges in Congress, Hamas turns non-violent, the Manning and Assange sagas continue, Ms. Maddow speaks sooth, and Syria may or may not be Libya Redux -- all this and more, in today's belated digest!... [More]

Hail Eris! Harper decides to kick his dictatorship into high gear, with thirty new MP's; only way they'll be Tory seats is if he cheats at the ballot box. Republican teabaggers don't care if people starve to death, they want Obama GONE So no, I don't eat at McD's merely because of laziness -- it'... [More]