Also the theme of an excellent pair of Oglaf comics.

Remember me? In the ark? The tall one with the thin mustache? About three years ago?

I hope I get a chance to see the Ask Dr. Hal show in San Francisco one of these days. One of its traditions is a shot of Fernet Branca for anyone who asks a particularly good question.

I had to watch Left Behind in a adolescent psychiatric ward. There are some remarkably thoughtless people in charge of shaping young minds in this world.

The scariest movie I've ever seen is another along these lines called Threads, made by the BBC in 1984. Same basic premise, set in Sheffield. Absolutely horrifying.

I'm a child of two people who never should have married in the first place, for several reasons. There's a small part of me that finds it strange that my brothers' and my existence is predicated on that poor decision. Mainly, I'm happy that my mom and dad made better decisions on their second marriages and got to…

Gambon played Churchill just this year.

I'd bet that "peristalsis" and "peristaltic" are unique to Andrew Bird's "Two Way Action".

"I'm a genius and I was wondering if you'd like to go to a genius party with me tonight."

The thing I've found most fascinating about Richard Pryor's life is that he convinced two different women to marry him twice. That's a hell of a CHA modifier.

Anyone else read this in the voice of Pat from Achewood?

I hoped that Colbert would be able to do a show like Dick Cavett's. Too bad.

"Moltar, I have a giant brain that is able to reduce any complex machine into a simple yes or no answer."

I love seeing Thom start to laugh his head off in the background as he realizes he's talking to people who are even weirder than him.

I do love me some How It's Made. The Quebecois produce some of the best propaganda in favor of capitalism. Who'd have thunk it?

Gerald McRaney's turn as Mirror Universe Warren Buffett on House of Cards was thoroughly enjoyable.

My fondest hope is that this election provokes a split in the GOP and they are out of power for a generation.

We had a dance for married couples at our wedding to "Tony y Maria". It was hard to find pop music which embodied the way my wife & I think about marriage and what we aspire to, but this song is just about perfect.

Or strong public broadcasting like every other industrialized country? I know that ship sailed a long time ago in the US but this is a good example of how the belief that the government can't do anything useful narrows the range of possibilities that citizens can imagine.

I was thinking about this a couple of weeks ago while listening to my nephew sing "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands", which my mom had taught him recently. Where do kids hear children's songs and folk songs nowadays? My brothers and I learned them from Raffi and Sharon, Lois & Bram. Is anyone working in that vein…