THIS AND THAT:
* Oh, excellent. Twenty-four facts from ten years ago.
* Top read: Howard Kurtz on ten bad years for the media.
* A retrospective on ten years in the District.
* Speaking of ten year, how about that Y2K disaster, huh?
* Fancy graphic of what has changed in the past decade.
* Good read: MGK discusses comic book trends of the past ( Read more... )

MOVIES, TV, MUSIC, AND COMIC BOOKS:
* The AV Club picks their movies of the year
* Salon.com has an interesting series including their films of the decade.
* The highest-paid actors and actresses aren't pulling in the box office bucks like they used to.
* Gallery: top ten good things about TV in 2009.
* NPR.org has a great series on the decade in ( Read more... )

DJ Earworm has released his next masterwork, United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop).

"That's because Obama reacted as though this is exactly what it actually is: a lame, failed attempt to kill people by a fractured band of criminals. It's not the Cuban Missile Crisis or the attack on Pearl Harbor, as disappointing and unfulfilling as it is to accept that. It merits analysis, investigation and possibly policy changes by the ( Read more... )

SOME NEWS:
* The next political ground war? Immigration reform.
* Millions of Iraqi refugees remain displaced.
* "There is a middle-class tax time bomb ticking in the Senate's version of President Obama's effort to reform health care."
* Lieberman, once again proving why we should get rid of him, suggests invading Yemen* "An ancient 'dwarf' whale ( Read more... )

I love these things, unapologetically.

Time.com takes the cake again, with their top ten everything of 2009.

ForeignPolicy.com looks back with the ten worst predictions for the year. (And I posted it before but their list of the ten stories you missed this year remains a solid read.) Bonus: the decade in photos.

Politico lists their best ( Read more... )

M. and I are home, safe and sound. Trip to visit M.'s family was fun; Z. had a blast. A few pics may eventually surface.

Haven't really been on the internet that whole time, so if there's anything I should know/see, drop it in comments (or an e-mail, whatevs.)

OK, just about off for our holiday trip to southern VA. Effectively away from internets until Tuesday evening, so, see y'all then. Will have cell in case of whatevers.

Best Christmas songs heard on the radio on the drive down to my sister's house: either "Don't Fear the Reaper" or Marilyn Manson's cover of "Sweet Dreams ( Read more... )

"So with this missile strike, we find yet again the most pervasive and destructive myth of American 'counter-terrorism' efforts: that there's this finite worldwide club called 'The Terrorists' (also known as 'al Qaeda'), and our solemn mission is to hunt down its members and kill them all, and once we do, there will be no more 'Terrorists' and we ( Read more... )