Exploding cigars, LSD mists, poisoned shoes, bazookas, hotel bombs, downed airliners. It’s the material of the comic-tragedy that is our unofficial state policy toward Cuba. It’s also flat-out terrorism. For forty points and a one-way trip to Guatanamo, guess which ruling American family continues to fully aid and abet that policy? Or read our man [...]

Wait, so sometimes airline downings, hotel bombings and assassinations are okay?

Therapists and brain people know all about denial. They say we deny because we have to, that we’re forced into petty lies and cowardly evasions by genetics, by biological construction and the chemical flows of the head. Really, it’s true. And I did not have… sex with that woman, whoever she is, whatever they say. [...]

“Mistakes were made!” (But not by me.) How The Decider is a special kind of Denier.

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Jean-Claude on Sea Level Records, celebrating the miracle of its ever existing!

Three fabulous movies I recommend renting during the long Memorial Day weekend. All three movies came out last fall during Oscar season, but with exception of Pan’s Labyrinth, none received much attention from the general public.
Breaking and Entering, directed by Anthony Minghella, portrays a London architect (Jude Law) who, dealing with a troubled marriage, [...]

If things are strange at the site, function-wise, it’s because we’re conducting advanced technological experiments—the kinda stuff undertaken by eighth graders with wet hands and live wires in dark garages across the nation. One semi-success so far, though, is the new “Top Five” box down there on the lower right (which may or may not [...]

Taking a mandatory, utterly terrifying ride with this guy through the Niger Delta.

When what you’re seeing and hearing is suddenly so bad, it’s bom chicka wahwah bad!

Novelist-critic Gary Indiana goes genius on Keanu’s best work ever.

Hip-hop collaboration for love and Nikes. Plus graffiti. Of course it’s classic!

The life-wrecking mad-addictiveness of DVD-extras! Help me someone, please.

George Lopez was understandably upset that ABC cancelled “The George Lopez Show.” The sitcom was obviously personal for him—and not just because he lent his name to the title. He chronicled many of his real-life experiences on the show, including his experience with kidney disease. Many of the charges Lopez hurled at ABC in his [...]

The new war games: Russian botnet ninjas are attacking internet service in former soviet satellite countries.
Gettouttahere.
Forreal.
Russia also recently cut off oil to Lithuania and lied about it and then embargoed Polish meat and Georgian wine… It’s a scandal, all of it. Next thing you know President Poohtin will be giving the finger to [...]

Edgar Metro is making movies. No sequels. No summer blockbusters. But, hey, he’s making movies!