Thirty-Five years ago, an adventure began.

While I am sure that there are more complete discussion to be had on the subject, io9 has an interesting little piece,  A brief history of four letter words: "Scumbag," sounds like the kind of hokey insult that would get you laughed at if you used it. When it was used in a New York [...]

Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died aged 96.

Among the items blasted into orbit today by SpaceX was a canister containing the ashes of James Doohan, who had played Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek: Scotty has finally been beamed up. The ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the 1960s television series “Star Trek,” were launched to space [...]

Robin Gibb, who along with his older brother Barry and twin brother Maurice, comprised the Bee Gees died today in England after a long battle with cancer: Robin Gibb, one of the three singing brothers of the Bee Gees, the long-running Anglo-Australian pop group whose chirping falsettos and hook-laden disco hits like “Jive Talkin” and [...]

For years, I’ve used Loretta Lynn as an example of how fast societal mores have changed. It turns out that her marriage at age 13 may be a bit of myth making.

One of the biggest stars of the Disco era, if not the biggest of them all, died today at the age of 63: Donna Summer died Thursday morning after a battle with lung cancer. Lovingly named the “Queen of Disco,” the 63-year-old was in Florida at the time of her death, according to TMZ. Born [...]

It’s been nearly twenty years now since I read The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 and The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940, the first two volumes of what was supposed to have been historian William Manchester’s planned three-volume biography of England’s iconic war time Prime Minister. They remain among [...]

The man who developed more than one of the American auto industry’s most famous high-performance sports cars has passed away at the age of 89: Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned hot-rodder who went on to build innovative sports cars like the Cobra that challenged Europe’s longtime dominance of road racing as well as [...]

Dish Network is offering customers a DVR that will skip commercials. I’m sure their content providers are thrilled.

Another bizarre conservative rant about the President.

The outpouring from my Twitter stream yesterday on the news of the death of Adam Yauch, MCA of the Beastie Boys, surprised me.

HBO’s Game of Thrones is violent and full of sex. Is it too much?

[FAIR WARNING: SPOILERS]

The commander of Fort Knox has canceled a Ted Nugent concert after the rocker’s recent rant about President Obama.

Legendary television producer and music promoter Dick Clark has died at the age of 82: Dick Clark, the music industry maverick, longtime TV host and powerhouse producer who changed the way we listened to pop music with American Bandstand, and whose trademark Rockin’ Eve became a fixture of New Year’s celebrations, died today at the [...]

Legendary musician Levon Helm is dying.

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Why the Internet is awesome: a Taiwanese animatronic take on the Secret Service hookers scandal.

Well, it would have been interesting to see the London Olympics organizers pull this one off: Organizers of the London Olympics approached the Who’s manager to inquire about having Keith Moon play at an Olympics event despite the drummer being dead for nearly 34 years, the Sunday Times reports. “I emailed back saying Keith now [...]

Shockingly, the “Springfield” in the long-running sittcom “The Simpsons” is Springfield, Oregon, near where creator Matt Groening grew up.

Jeffrey Brown has a children’s book titled Darth Vader and Son scheduled for release on April 18.

Should you lie to your kids about holiday fantasy characters?

The Sky News leadership is taking a novel approach to charges that it illegally hacked emails: Claiming a right to break the law when they think it’s in the public’s interest to do so.

Sometimes, art imitates life rather than the reverse. And sometimes reality seems stranger than fiction.

Roger Ebert and I don’t agree on much, from politics to movies. But share a fondness for Samuel L. Jackson and a contempt for George Zimmerman.

Dear Bill Maher and Alexandra Pelosi: The plural of anecdote is not data.

Sure, he routinely uses gender-specific slurs against conservative women. But he’s not a misogynist!

Doug Mataconis’ Thursday posting “Herman Cain Releases Bizarre New Video Involving Apparent Goldfish Murder” got picked up on that night’s edition of The Colbert Report.

Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, thinks Armed Forces Radio should stop carrying The Rush Limbaugh Show. The Hill (“Armed Forces Chairman Levin wants Limbaugh dropped from military radio“): The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that he would “love” to see controversial conservative radio host Rush [...]

Movie theater snacks are expensive. This is not cause for a lawsuit.

Was Return Of The Jedi the best of all the Star Wars films? One writer thinks so.

Davy Jones, the face of The Monkees, has died.

The iconic “Homer at the Bat” episode of The Simpsons aired two decades ago. Deadspin (The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time 20 Years Ago Tonight): On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into The Simpsons than they did The Cosby Show or the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on [...]

My previous post (Newt Gingrich, Amateur Paleontologist) made me think of this clip from Seinfeld: click.

An object lesson in celebrity worship from the State of New Jersey.

Cal Thomas made a tasteless joke at Rachel Maddow’s expense. He describes the lesson in civility he learned.

There’s been a lot of buzz today on Twitter about “The Colbert Report” running a re-run last night and the show suspending production for tonight’s show as well. (There are no Friday episodes, for whatever reason, of either it or “The Daily Show.”) WSJ (“Stephen Colbert Suspends Production of His Show“) fills in the details: [...]

Today’s the 20th anniversary of Wayne’s World

We can feel that we “know” athletes, entertainers, politicians, and others that we’ve followed, rooted for, or whatnot over a period of time and feel a genuine sense of loss when they’re gone.

Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera posts some Facebook updates from people who, for some reason, could not tell Oprah Winfrey and Whitney Houston apart. This one is may favorite: I’m really not sure what to say.

Whitney Houston, once one of the biggest stars in American popular culture, has died.

Take the quiz.

Was Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad a political message, or just a well done commercial?

This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?

One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.

Virtually everything Stephen Colbert is doing was legal before Citizens United.

The DC government’s incompetence knows no bounds.

Soul Train’s Don Cornelius has been shot to death. He was 75. CNN (“Coroner: ‘Soul Train’ founder dead of gunshot wound“): Don Cornelius, the founder of “Soul Train,” has been found dead in Los Angeles, Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said Wednesday. He died of a gunshot wound at a [...]

Stephen Colbert’s super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, has raised a little over a million dollars.

Shockingly, Paula Deen, the morbidly obese woman who fries Twinkies on television, has diabetes.