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Aaron Sorkin does not use Twitter. Aaron Sorkin does not have a flickr account. He doesn't use Foursquare, as far as I can tell. And u...

This is my forth year at Nuit Blanche, the Montreal All Nighter. I have a bit of experience spotting off the program my familiar favorites, ...

When I first started hearing rumors that Apple would come out with its own cell phone -- more than a year before it was actually available i...

Hey Folks, I'm going to San Pedro Feb 23-March 1st. The Rutledge brothers (Steve, Bill and Bob) are vacationing together, with Scuba an...

Before I complete my collection of (some) new and interesting music from 2007, I thought I would solicit nominations from the 13D crew. Feel...

The New York Times Magazine 2007 Year in Ideas is out! Start reading -- I just did. My favorite so far: The elimination of the left-hand-t...

Resolved, that the Senate Judiciary Committee votes to cite Karl Rove and Josh Bolten for contempt of Congress, and forwards the Contempt ci...

The LA Times asks the most pertinent question about the housing bubble: How Low Can They Go? For anyone owning real estate in greater LA,...

I've been trying to figure out the name of the neighborhood I live in. I'm in a weird boundary point. There's no question I li...

Bob's friend Francois (U. Montreal) had an NYT Op-Ed this week comparing President Bush, and his Administration, to the Jacobins of revo...

Consider the rap that is currently being given to ordinary, incandescent light bulbs (by groups including one co-recipient of this year...

This is one of those bizarre crime articles which appear in the Montreal Gazette [link] . This guy had his legs crushed, by an SUV which pin...

For those of you who might not think fashion can be political .

In the wake of a couple of embarassing bathroom situations involving steadfastly non-gay Republican politicians, Frank Cerabino at the Palm ...

Distribution has been delayed somewhat owing to Claire's arrival back in March. Choices and reasoning: Corinne Bailey Rae One of the y...

I got back to Montreal Thursday from six weeks in Seattle, and I stepped into the average Montreal Summer: right now, my place is 31C (88F) ...

What does it mean to own an iPhone? They're almost a month out now, and you can by them, readily, for $500 retail. When someone pulls ...

I'm just getting my noms in early -- Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo should receive a Pulitzer prize for his work on the US Attorney...

As always with the GOP, it comes down to domestic political power, to all appearances their only reason for being. Washington Post today, P...

A little while ago on KCRW I heard Sergio Mendes'es remake of his bossa-nova hit "Mas Que Nada" that he did with the Black Eye...

We interrupt this solid month of rememberances of Gerry Ford to bring this other recollection from the 70s: The Quebec Sovereigntist group, ...

It was only today that I realized - it is less than a year until 2008, the year we elect the first post-Bush President. (Ford knew about lam...

Apropos our former President , I wonder what he would make of the transformation of the satirical publication The Onion from humor rag, to...

In honor of the former President, all posts this month will be explicitly Gerald Ford-related. A moment of silence, please, while we contemp...

Reading that Ford was actually quite a talented athlete (he could probably wrestle Don Rumsfeld to the ground) and not the stumbler Chevy Ch...

You may recall back when I blogged about "The Winner Take All Society" , reviewed in the NYTimes "Class Matters" series...

Here's the fundamental conflict: The Iraq Study Group report makes clear that the Republican Establishment (personified as James Baker...

It is a great sign for the political status of the country, that someone as even-keeled, considered, skeptical and optimistic as Senator C...

..when the ship hits the bottom of the ocean. Re: Derek's post "America's Darkest Day" below, those of us who live days th...

I would argue that yesterday was the darkest day in modern American history. Forget political assassinations and days of mass murder, bad f...

It was only this week that I realized that, since leaving office and having a near-death experience, Clinton had ascended from the ranks of ...