Odin's Ravens

Fundamentalists are always, finally, about totalitarianism. It's the only place they can go to relieve their own nagging doubts about th...

As my friend Paul Loop explained, regarding false balance: "Explaining Politico (and CNN, the news networks, the Sunday shows, the pund...

Well, if Alfred Hitchcock directed a Batman movie, it would be something like The Batman .  Bart and I just returned from seeing it, and I l...

  “In today’s world we come to neglect the habit of writing because so many other media of communication have taken its place,” wrote Mihaly...

Talking heads peddle sports bets, beer and penis pills while it all falls down.

Right wing trolls always seem to think that you work for them, and are forever demanding that you supply them a variety of carefully researc...

Jim Hampton just gave me this massive volume by one of my favorite authors. “ Privacy ,” wrote Patricia Highsmith in September 1957. “An exp...