United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than cooperative diplomacy.

"Striking down the judicial precedent that established the legal supremacy of right over wrong more than two centuries ago, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned Right v. Wrong," the Onion reported Wednesday.[1] ...

“It’s bizarre," said Jon Stewart, quoted in the New York Times Magazine.[1]  --  "Here is this fictional character who is now suddenly interacting in the real world.  It’s so far up its own rear end that you don’t know what to do except get high and sit in a room with a black light and a poster."  --  The character, of course, is Stephen Colbert 3, not be confused with Stephen Colbert 2 or Stephen Colbert 1.  --  Charles McGrath traces the history of the Colberts and shows that they are the product of improv:  "Colbert likes to say that the whole show is a 'scene,' a term that in improv-speak means not just a unit of dramatic time but a transaction in which one character wants something from another.  The other character in this instance is us, the audience, and what Colbert wants from us is love." ...

Rap News is back with Episode 10, focusing on prospects for 2012 and concluding with a guest appearance by Noam Chomsky.[1] ...

At 2:33 p.m. on May 2, 2011, members of the Copenhagen Philharmonic in street clothes participated in an unannounced orchestral flash mob, assembling to play Ravel's "Boléro" (1928) and then, their revels ended, melting back into the crowd like an insubstantial pageant faded, leaving not a (music) rack behind.[1]  --  The piece is seventeen minutes in length but in the video is shortened to under five minutes.  --  The conductor in blue is the Swedish composer Jesper Nordin.  --  In a performance like this, members of the audience become as fascinating as the musicians....

The eurozone crisis is activating a lot of stereotypes, and sometimes nothing is funnier than stereotyping stereotypes.[1]  --  Yanko Tsvetkov has also made his "Mappying Stereotypes" into a more extensive "Ultimate Bigot's Calendar of the World." ...

A challenge: read this without laughing out loud....

Jonathan Mann has been writing a song a day since Jan. 1, 2009, and Song a Day #77, posted on YouTube, was "Hey, Paul Krugman."[1]  --  It starts this way:  "Hey Paul Krugman / Why aren't you in the administration? / Is there some kind of politicking that I don't understand ? / I mean, Timothy Geithner is like some little weasel / And wasn't he in a position of power / When all this shit went down in the first place? / When I listen to you things seem to make sense / When I listen to him all I hear is blah blah blah / Hey Paul Krugman, where the hell are you man?" ...