In the last few months we’ve seen Passion Pit sell “Sleepyhead” for a Palm Pixi commercial and Cadillac place “1901″ by Phoenix in ads for the 2010 SRX. My punk-rock hackles got raised. But should they? The music industry is in a terrible state and people have to hustle. Is the indie ethic of not [...]

In between MSNBC hits on Tuesday, my friend Eli Lake and I filmed this Bloggingheads about underpants bombs and Yemen and Iran. I couldn’t resist the Pat Buchanan-slavemaster joke E set me up for at the beginning. Consider that a get-back for Pat’s “Merry Christmas” signoff on Morning Joe. Also, as a compliment to Bmaz’s [...]

I was 19 and working at New York Press, barely promoted to factchecker from listings intern. It was 2000 and I had two more years of college and the school newspaper to go, but at least I got to tell people that I was a professional journalist. Sort of. I loved New York Press back [...]

Verrrrrry wonky. Also, thanks to Amy for letting me use the words “class war” on her show. (Hmm, I can’t seem to make this embed work out…)

TAPPED is on vacation, but Adam Serwer’s ire knows no rest. Who’s Marc Thiessen, though? The only Thiessen I know is Tiffani-Amber. Read on… Republicans have been hitting the Obama administration hard over the decision to try alleged underwear bomber Umar Abdulmutallab in civilian court. The only problem is that the Bush administration tried shoe-bomber [...]

TAPPED is on vacation. But Adam Serwer reads the latest Dick Cheney interview in Politico — one wonders if Cheney insists on being called Mr. Wipe-Me-Down during those, um, sessions with Mike Allen — and has some things to say. I offer up this humble platform. For the past year, POLITICO has treated Dick Cheney [...]

It’s hard to do Rachel’s show. Before she gets to your segment, she’s already made most-to-all of the good points. I was all set to be like, “Napolitano was quoted out of context!” But Rachel got in there first. Hoekstra, King, DeMint — done. Anyway, as Chris Partlow said to Marlo Stansfield, that’s one of [...]

I’m really tired and have to be up early tomorrow morning. But I feel like I want a second bite of the apple for the points I might not have expressed well in this post. The “systemic failures” President Obama described in Hawaii today concerning how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab got on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 [...]

I’ll be on the Rachel Maddow Show at 9 pm EST taking stock of the underpants bomber and his implications. Then tomorrow morning, I’ll be on Democracy Now! at about 8 am EST taking stock of the underpants bomber and his implications. Later tomorrow, you’ll find an episode of Bloggingheads TV in which Eli Lake [...]

An amazing story: in 1982, a young comic fan writes to Marvel with a great idea for Spider-Man. “I came up with this idea that Reed Richards had made a new costume for Spidey using the same unstable molecules that the FF costumes are made of,” the fan remembered. “The unstable molecules would flow into [...]