With the vocal blend on those harmonies, you might guess that the singers are related, and you'd be right. The core of The Belle Brigad...

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day , I thought I'd use the English-to-Pirate translator on an scurvy dog bent on pillaging Americans, Mi...

Crooks and Liars, one of the coolest big blogs, is holding a donation drive. I imagine most readers here are familiar with Crooks and Liars...

I was shocked and saddened to learn that a former co-blogger, Buck, had died. (He was relatively young; it was due to natural causes; I...

Kurt Eichenwald has a piece in The New York Times titled "The Deafness Before the Storm" that adds details to what's known a...

This is a local L.A. band. I've had this song stuck in my head for the past week, so I decided to learn it (the chords are pretty easy...

Happy Labor Day, brought to us by the labor movement, the same folks who brought us the weekend. I wrote more about this last year . Erik...

The big political news today is, of course, Mitt Romney naming Paul Ryan as his running mate. It's hard to keep up with all the coverag...