Salon Premium just added a few new benefits to signing up -- if you're in the US you can get US News and World Report, and Canadians can get Geist. Several Canadians contacted me today …

The editorial staff was gathered around a TV, and for a second I worried that some cataclysm had befallen us, but no. Joan Walsh was on Bill O'Reilly's show, that's all.

Try not to turn off your phone, go to a meeting, sit in a chair that is the same color as your cell phone, and then think you have lost said phone and run around …

If you liked Peter Brook's Mahabharata, you might also like Dune!

Man, these spammers have great fake names. Russell Kerbrat, Ahmed Pollock, and Glenn Narayan!

"STEWART: You don't want to get the Democrats angry, because then they'll maybe meet in private." I wish that Stewart had poked more fun at Moyers, but it's still Jon Stewart.

This Paul Conrad cartoon features (I think) George W. Bush, at 79% approval, running in a race, and another George W. Bush, at 42% approval, gaining on him. But at first I thought it featured …

I am a happy mutant rabbit. I saw Josh Kornbluth's Love and Taxes last night with Katharine, and we really enjoyed it. After the show, I met the performer and he remembered me from e-mail. …

Sometimes, when I'm trying to pacify the few (thank goodness) rude customers, I think I'm just enabling their bad behavior. I wish it were legit to say, "No, I'm not going to help you unless …

I'm reading the Mahabharata in prose form, as edited by C. Rajagopalachari, "popularly known as 'Rajaji' or 'C.R.'" Fantastic stuff. I see the connections among little narratives and anecdotes that I read in Amar Chitra …