“To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker—that’s like an aberration. I know there’s some […]
Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. […]
Nota Bene #92: Echoblowcation
A few things for you NB readers:
Nota Bene #91: No Joke
Well I figured I’d give you all a break
Echoes of Future Past

Does anyone else look at these two photos from the RNC and worry, as I do, about demagoguery? What if I add the word “Heil”?
Meet Satan's towel boy, Ralph Nader, and other famous rabblerousers in a call for open debates
He’s the man who caused Sep. 11, war in the Gulf, a million Iraqi deaths and probably mad cow disease too, as you’ve no doubt heard from disgruntled Democrats. Of course I’m […]
Barack and Hillary, together at last…
…in this Republican National Committee fundraiser pitch, anyway. Dear Fellow Conservative, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are raking in the campaign cash hand-over-fist. They begin 2008 having raised more than $200 […]
Has anyone told Henry Waxman and John Conyers about this?
The poor chairs of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees have been fruitlessly serving subpoenas on various cretins in the Bush administration and the GOP, but all have come to naught. They’ve […]