LATEST BLOG POSTS

• Comment of the Day II: Gay Marriage and the Military

  July 27, 4:56 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  From reader'C-Dawg' responding to my post, The Idiocy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell' I'm gay and I'm in the military. I prefer to keep m... | More »

• Now More Than Ever: Rob Sheffield's Guide to Rock-Show Etiquette

  July 27, 2:59 PM ET

  | By Rob Sheffield

  Our item earlier this week on Leo DiCaprio obeying the unwritten rules of rock shows spurred some heated debate in the message boards between tall guys who don't ... | More »

• Comment of the Day: "Israel's Fight For Existence"

  July 27, 1:43 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Responding to former National Security Adviser Zbig Brzezinski's assertion that Israel's killing of hundreds of Lebanese civilians in the effort to defang He... | More »

• The Idiocy of'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

  July 27, 12:08 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The military has just discharged its 55th Arabic linguist — at a time when Arabic speakers are in desperate need — simply because he is a gay American. Does homop... | More »

• Album Preview: Hold Steady, "Boys and Girls In America"

  July 27, 12:04 PM ET

  | By Rob Sheffield

  Damn you, Hold Steady! How can any band be this good? Boys and Girls In America is the third straight chain-smoker from everybody's favorite Brooklyn bar band. ... | More »

• All the News That Fits... Living Wages, Illicit Sex, Civil War and More

  July 27, 11:53 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Big Oil posts record profits — again — more than $30 billion combined in the second quarter. Chicago passes an ordinance requiring "big-box" employers like Wal-... | More »

• Double Albums That Could Be Single Discs: Guns N' Roses, "Use Your Illusion I + II"

  July 27, 11:50 AM ET

  All this week we've been editing down double albums that should have been single discs. Today's project: Guns N' Roses' 1991 release Use Your Illus... | More »

• 17 out of 20 Americans Agree: Raise the Minimum Wage

  July 27, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Populism lives. The shocker from the latest New York Times poll is how united Americans are in offering a hand up to the working poor: 85 percent of respondents suppor... | More »

• Israel. Lebanon. Iraq. Afghanistan. Iran. Syria. How Will It Play In November?

  July 27, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Political Handicapper Charlie Cook raises a question that's been on my mind since the opening of a third mideast war front: In 2002 and 2004, in the first midterm... | More »

• Brzezinski: Israeli Offensive Like "The Killing of Hostages"

  July 26, 10:48 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Steve Clemons over at The Washington Note quotes former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski offering up strong opinions on the Lebanon/Israel crisis: I hate ... | More »

• YouTube Theater: Colbert v. Poker Playing Chimps

  July 26, 4:37 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Otherwise known as morning news anchors . . . Watch it here. | More »

• Double Albums That Could Be Single Discs: Bruce Springsteen, "The River"

  July 26, 10:53 AM ET

  The mission: edit classic double albums down to even-better single discs. Monday was The Beatles' White Album; Tuesday was Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti; ... | More »

• Community Post: Is War With Iran Unavoidable?

  July 26, 10:03 AM ET

  In the August 10, 2006 issue of Rolling Stone, James Bamford investigates the Bush administration's secret plans to sell a new war — with Iran. "The meeting in... | More »

• All the News That Fits...Israel Ignored U.N.'s Pleas, and More

  July 26, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  An initial U.N. report says Israeli forces 'ignored' U.N. peacekeepers' 10 separate attempts to halt bombing before an explosion killed four of them. ... | More »