Short Schrift

Readies ! About Bob Brown; Via Al Filreis .

From this week's CityPaper (one of the Philadelphia alt-weeklies): I love walking — especially outside my front door. Those first steps...

Yes. That is James Brown doing The Robot. (Probably high as hell.)

Short Schrift and family are temporarily moving house across town, so we're going to need a little blog break. See you again next month.

Rick Hertzberg uses the now legendary Matthews-James video to riff on his history with and admiration for Chris Matthews . I'm kind of ...

Der Spiegel on Obamamania in Deutschland : Frank-Walter Steinmeier had hoped to meet personally, but Barack Obama has a lot on his plate at ...

It matters to Daniel Larison. I love this part of his liveblog of the Libertarian Presidential debate: 8:06 Barr named Ayn Rand as his favou...

There are a lot of contenders, but right now, for its luminous versatility, it has to be this one: strike |strīk| verb ( past struck |strək|...

All Music Guide's critics share lists of their favorite albums from 1999 . They're some of my favorites, too -- although I suspect t...

Via Pitchfork : NY Governor David Patterson has pardoned Slick Rick (aka Ricky Walters): “Mr. Walters has fully served the sentence imposed...