Rick Perry just announced that he will not seek a fourth full term as the Governor of Texas. However, he did hint that he may try to run for President again, promising to reveal “more expansive plans” at a later date. It’s worth looking at why his first effort was such a disaster. He had […]

The official tagline for /comment is “The last word on just about everything.” I’m going to do something slightly different and offer the first word on something that the vast majority of you will not be familiar with. This should certainly be in keeping with the site’s promise of “just about everything.” Recently, I was introduced to […]

The last few weeks have not been great for President Barack Obama. Steve Miller, Acting Commissioner of the IRS, resigned after it came out that the IRS applied greater scrutiny to Tea Party groups. When it turned out that he had been planning to resign anyway, the grand gesture suddenly seemed transparently phony. The media is […]

After the box office success of Iron Man 3, Marvel and Disney are quite eager to negotiate a new contract with Robert Downey Jr. to star in a sequel as well as another Avengers film. Downey seems to believe that his performance as Tony Stark would be more believable if he understood firsthand what it […]

Two disgraced politicians from different sides of the political aisle are currently getting media attention for their comeback bids. Anthony Weiner, my one-time congressman, will decide within a few days whether he will run for mayor of New York City this year. Former Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a man Erick Erickson of Red State […]

Previously on The Americans: KGB agents Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) are undercover as recently-separated American travel agents with two children. They live across the street from FBI agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) and his family. Stan Beeman is sleeping with Nina the hot Russian mole (Annet Mahendru); Sandra Beeman (Susan […]

A miscarriage of justice is a double tragedy; it destroys the innocent and brings no peace to those who were wronged. In the American justice system, we have safeguards in place to prevent and ameliorate these tragedies; we demand that suspects must be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, that a jury of peers must […]

In WWII, young women were enlisted to help the war effort by working as codebreakers at Bletchley Park. The UK’s greatest breakthroughs happened at Bletchley, and the intelligence gathered there is credited with shortening the war by at least three years. Winston Churchill called them “The geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled”. […]

Peter Hampsen of the New Hampshire House of Representatives used vaginas as shorthand for women in an email to colleagues. This news item has been picked up by Think Progress, The Political Wire, Mediaite, and New York magazine, which currently lists “N.H. Defends Vaginas’ Right to Bear Arms” as a top story. He hasn’t been the only […]

Previously on The Americans: Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) are KGB agents posing as a suburban American married couple in a program called Directorate S. They live across the street from FBI agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), who is in counterintelligence and spends his life trying to foil the KGB. Stan […]

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative deck-building game by Greater Than Games, based in the fictional Sentinel Comics universe. The goal is simple: two to five players —taking the guise of a chosen superhero —must work together to defeat a common enemy, while both heroes and villain deal with environmental bonuses and hazards. SotM […]

Previously on The Americans: Philip and Elizabeth Jennings are undercover KGB agents posing as a suburban married American couple with a pre-teen son Henry and a teen-teen daughter Paige. They live across the street from FBI agent Stan, who has no idea they’re KGB and thinks Philip is his best buddy. Elizabeth had an affair […]