Listen to the Lion

Baseball in December

I'm not sure if the Mitchell Report achieved anything, and I'll be surprised if anything does get done while Bud Selig is commissioner. My Examiner column here.

No Country for Old Men

A review of the Coen Brothers' latest masterpiece, with a comment on the Led Zeppelin reunion thrown in.

Here's another great review of No Country that I found.

A history lesson from the gentleman scholar Leroy Troy

Bad ideas, bad movies

These three movies were really, really bad, and not just because they could have been written by your average DailyKos poster.

Odds on the Republican field

Even after the YouTube Republican debate, which featured all those fine Democrat questioners, I'm still not excited about the 2008 election in general or any of the GOP candidates specifically, but here's what I think of it, and of what will be the biggest issue.