Not a joke. The island of Lesbos is suing a Greek gay-right's group over the use of the term 'lesbian'. This fight has long since lost. Nobody thinks "resident of Lesbos" when she hears the word lesbian. Best case, they think Xena. Or of Xena.

Bush is now the most disapproved president in the history of Gallup polling

When you get 98% of historians to declare your term as a failure -- and historians still argue whether or not terms by Buchanan, Grant, Hoover or Nixon were failures or not -- you've achieved something grand. Give this man a prize.

Finally, a scientific explanation for the existence of boy bands.

India has invented the world's cheapest car. Everybody will want one now. While you chew on that, realize that thanks to that invention, we will all have to chew our air. As an animated friend of Al Gore might say, "we're boned!"

It's amazing what you can do with clocks these days!

Detroit struggles to bounce back.

It's hard to know what ticked him off -- the casual mentions in previous columns or making it a major thesis in his new book. But whatever it was, it started an unusual secret argument that played out on the pages of the New York Times.

Reagan made a speech at Philadelphia, MS. Civil Rights workers were murdered there years ago. Reagan spoke of States' Rights there. But States Rights is code for racism. Reagan must have known, right? Brooks says no, it was a misunderstanding.

2.5 months before Brooks took fire: "Reagan didn’t begin his 1980 campaign with a speech on economics, he began it—at the urging of a young Trent Lott—with a speech supporting states’ rights, where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964.

1.5 months before Brooks: "Thus Ronald Reagan, who began his political career by campaigning against California’s Fair Housing Act, started his 1980 campaign with a speech supporting states’ rights delivered just outside Philadelphia, Miss.

He'd might buy it as a mistake if not for all of the other times Reagan appealed to coded racism. Such as saying the Voting Rights Act humiliated the South. Or fought for Bob Jones Univ and its interracial dating ban. Or fought against MLK day.

Throughout his career, Reagan was wrong, insensitive and mean-spirited on civil rights and other issues important to black people. There is no way for the scribes of today [Brooks] to clean up that dismal record.

Whether or not Reagan himself was racist is immaterial. It's that he pandered to the voters racism to win elections. This is a continuation of the GOP Southern Strategy, which continues to this day.

So you say waterboarding isn't torture? Then why was it illegal?

Thank Comcast for ruining it for everyone. To those Comcastic fools, P2P is not used solely for piracy. As a online gamer on WoW, P2P is how updates are delivered. As a Linux user, P2P is how I get my software.

"What happens when a few media conglomerates control not only what you can watch, but what you can download?"

More Krugman on our brilliant broadband policy.

Asks Kim Zetter, "Were the bloggers right to publish a name and address that may or may not be correct?" Given that you say the info "may or may not be correct", I suspect the answer would be "No".

The WGA and the AMPTP are returning to the negotiation tables. (United Hollywood is the weblog of the WGA.)

Dude gets his iPhone wet, and it stops working. Of course fanboys blast him for getting it wet, but I have to wonder, did they not consider that it's not always sunny where you need to make a call?

See where your name ranks, too.

Maybe he'll bring the slide show. Former vice president Al Gore plans to return to the White House after Thanksgiving, apparently for the first time since leaving office, to be honored by the man who beat him seven years ago.

What an evil way to get me to read an article. Ashcroft and the nude female statue was just a throwaway comment in a column about Mukasey. Read page two, though. Government workers spend their day trying to rig web polls!

Whoever floated this balloon to the WSJ, please stop. There's already plenty enough demagoguing and immigrant bashing in the presidential campaign as it is!

The conventional wisdom is that the studios and networks are purposely waiting so that they can invoke force majeure, a contract clause that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event, such as a strike, occurs.

Matthew Dowd helped win the White House. Now he views the administration with a mixture of anguish and contempt.

The problem with Heroes -- it's slow, it's repetitive. "You don’t get it. It’s like a comic book. That’s how stories are told in comic books,” fans say. But that's why people don't read comic books either! This may be too late, with a strike and a

However, unlike with the WGA screenwriters' strike. the stagehands and the producers are scheduled to negotiate. This weekend.

They're also represented by the WGA (WGA-E), but they work under a different contract. That expired in 2005. Their last pay raise came in 2004. Why again haven't they struck first?

Snarky headline about researchers believing there's a correlation between hip to waist ratio and intelligence

Because I'm lazy... This supposedly allows me to post links I post to Delicious into my journal. I post a lot of links there for which I'm too lazy to surround with commentary, opinion, or just plain prose.

Robin Harris (not the comedian who created Bébé's Kids) says that all modern computers (excepting Macintoshes) come with a BIOS level command that will erase hard disks so that no data can be retrieved from them. Good if you sell the PC.