It's the end of Banned Books Week , which celebrates reading challenged and banned books. I've written more extensive posts on th...

As is traditional for Talk Like a Pirate Day , I'll be using a English-to-Pirate translator on a scalliwag. This year, it's Sarah Pa...

Happy Labor Day! I've featured this one before, but this is a great rendition of one of the best tunes for the day. It's from the ...

Over at Experiential Pagan , syrbal-labrys has started a series of book reviews. She has an interesting and personal take on Go Set a Watc...

Happy Independence Day! The history of the United States of America contains some shameful chapters as well as moments that merit legit...

On the eve of war in Washington, journalists and others gathered at a cocktail party at the home of Philip Taubman, the Washington bureau ch...

April is National Poetry Month. As usual, I'll link the wonderful Favorite Poem Project . For this year, I wanted to feature a lo...

Over at Mock, Paper, Scissors, Tengrain has a stellar roundup for 2015's Blog Against Theocracy.

Happy Fool's Day! This year, here's Eddie Izzard at his witty, silly best: The 2012 installment covered a study of the most ...

Akira Kurosawa would be 105 today. Tony Zhou has put together a superb video on Kurosawa called "Composing Movement." (Zhou h...