A sixteen-year old high school student kicks Bill O’Reilly’s ass on-air by correcting his quotes regarding a sex-and-drugs educational event (of the “Just Say No” sort; not the “Coke Is Awesome — Especially Off Public Restroom Toilet Seats” class I took in high school) at a high school and then quoting a passage from O’Reilly’s [...]

And this is the rest of the story: [Hotel Tango: Monday Night Poker Host Keith]

Two great ads have appeared in recent weeks pointing out the harm caused to our country and our fellow citizens by continuing to follow the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue” policy and the failure of our government to yet provide hate-crimes protection to the GLBT community, respectively. [Hotel Tango: Sam Smoot]

The inimitable Noah Shachtman has been collecting the best military recruiting ads (scroll down) from around the world on Wired’s national security blog, Danger Room. The ads, of course, focus on what the military can do for you — money, guns and babes — and what you can do for them — dance, sing and [...]

Thank God for PBS. I watched FRONTLINE’s “Endgame” last night on their Web site. If you want to know how we ended up where we are in Iraq, and the new strategy that’s being employed by Gen. Petraeus and American forces in-country, you have to watch this. In fact, it should be required viewing for [...]

And we thought Texas politics were a bloodsport. [Hotel Tango: Left in Alabama.]

Flashback: 90210 Theme Music Interpretation: We’ve seen some crazy sh*t go down on musical instruments via the magical world of Youtube, but none has strewn our heartstrings more than this interpretation of the 90210 theme song played on a single guitar by two twins. . . . [Hotel Tango: Lindsay & Best Week Ever]

Conservatives would probably say that “no news is good news” when it comes to Iraq — especially since they consider almost any news reported by respectable media outlets to be bad news. In fact, no news is worse than bad news or good news. We need to be reminded by each day’s paper and every [...]

You’re frakin’ kidding me. This is a decision that took some time to arrive at, and like all decisions this large, there were a number of questions we had internally and a creative agenda we wanted to serve. I think we all had to collectively decide when we wanted to be definitive about it. That [...]

The next few posts will be some old blog posts that were posted elsewhere earlier (can I use the word “post” one more time in this sentence?): And Black Lung for the Kids I love how the new ads touting the use of coal feature a young girl of no more than ten. She oh-so-smartly [...]