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in the first Tim Burton Batman movie, “I’m glad you’re dead! Hee hee hee hee! I’m glad he’s dead!” Jesse Walker’s Hit&Run item about the general lack of notice to the death last week of former Georgia governor Lester Maddox brought this quotation fit on.
I actually remember Lester Maddox appearing on the TV news once […]

I’m pretty sure, based on reading the entrails of my referrer logs, that someone has syndicated this site to LiveJournal. By coincidence, I got a query from a reader asking permission to do this very thing. I figure if it’s been done I can save her the trouble, right? Or do I just no - […]

If I lean way back on the scale, I can get it all the way up to 169 pounds before I fall off. Meanwhile, Mrs. Offering has officially defined my waist as a circumference passing through my belly button. That metric comes in at 33.5″. The weight in particular looks like a big drop from […]

Walter in Denver has a new URL and a new design - meaning, he’s given up one of the two worst Blogger templates for a functional Movable Type template.
Dr. Frank has moved too, to his own domain.
Four-Color Hell is a new group comics blog. There’s rather more fretting about whether a given comic or company […]

“Occupation Forces Halt Elections Throughout Iraq” notes the Washington Post:

“They give us a general,” said Bahith Sattar, a biology teacher and tribal leader in Samarra who was a candidate for mayor until that election was canceled last week. “What does that tell you, eh? First of all, an Iraqi general? They lost the last three […]

to the Littlest Offering! who turned three yesterday, which occasion has taken time that might otherwise have been spent blogging.

Remember how burned you felt by the Planetary/JLA story a few months ago? Six bucks and an hour of your life down the drain. How the only good thing about it was that picture of Clark Kent in a trench coat hovering over Bruce Wayne’s balcony. How it wasn’t really Planetary in the story at […]

Dirk Deppey responds to the critics of his essay, “The Trouble with Marvel.” I want to stress that I have no quibble with this part:

The most thoughtful and on-target response to the article came from weblogger Jim Henley, who turns out to have had prior experience in the bookstore trade himself.

Hey, right on, Dirk! […]

Of all the justly-pleased bloggers writing about the Supreme Court decision to strike down Texas’ anti-sodomy law, John Cole seems to be having the best time.

New entries from Salam Pax. I’ll have more to say in the next day or two. Everything Salam writes is vital and has been for some time. Scroll up from the linked item for more. On the “what did I tell you people?” front, this:

From that incident and until today things have been moving in […]

Franklin Harris reviews the Hulk movie in his weekly Pulp Culture column.