All of my NY cop friends are celebrating the death sentence of a murdering asshole, rather than the life of good cops. Everyone will call ...

People who know me will be unsurprised that I am pessimistic about this country's future. Looking at recent political developments has h...

While Republicans think of ways they can legally steal Presidential elections and Congressional majorities using the gerrymander and rigging...

Just in case you forgot, Tim Geithner is still full of shit . Here he is complaining about his critics in a recent New York magazine interv...

I enjoy reading books by people like Daniel Kahneman  and Daniel Gilbert  who like to make the point that, in short a) people don't real...

Well, I think if I wait to see Zero Dark Thirty , I'll never get around to my Top Ten Movie List, so I'm just going to roll with wha...

Nothing causes me more agita than watching the President negotiate with Republicans. It's like he's Walter from Fringe and he intent...

Since the fiscal cliff isn't actually real (it's a creation of an incompetent media who through ignorance or ill-intent push the fra...

I can't even imagine the racist rhetoric this morning's Newsday headline will bring. It's gotten to the point where I don't ...

I am starting to hear some rumblings that the Obama administration may call down the thunder on Colorado and Washington in regards to t...

Most of my readers probably ask themselves: "Hmm, I wonder if my favorite blog, Dixonthewall, has an anthem or theme song?" ...

I like to think of myself as an environmentalist, but I don't think "real" environmentalists would agree with my self-characte...

Another bang-up job by Newsday today - NYPD: Lucius Crawford a possible person of interest in Gilgo Beach murders If you read the stor...

I'd like to go to work soon on my Top Ten movies of 2012 (I have a list of 11 right now that will need to be whittled down), but I reali...

So I am perusing Newsday this morning and I see an article entitled Boy Killed in Bus Crash Was in Illegal Bedroom . Well then! I think we ...

I don't give a flying fuck if filibuster reform is good or bad for Democrats in the short term. It's bad for fucking democracy. Peri...

I think I've mentioned to people before that if I ever went back to school to get my PhD, I would like to teach a class on the media. Pr...

Man oh man, am I obsessed with this song today -

I haven't entirely thought through the ramifications of this transaction  yet, but let's just say I'm extraordinarily worried th...

I hate to fall into fanboy worship (and I promise it won't happen too often), but it's kinda awesome how funny our President is... ...

I know there are six weeks left in the year, but this is probably my favorite song of 2012. I first heard it during The Walking Dead , then ...

When Republicans and libertarians (yes I know they are the same people) spend time bemoaning the "loss of freedom," I really wish ...

David Petraeus makes a pitch for some more play. Today marks an unfortunate reminder that our country is utterly insane about sex. I am ...

Today I'd like to post a series of links that have had a significant effect on me after the election. However, first I'd like to poi...

So it's election day and I am massively stressed out. Which is weird because I'm also somewhat convinced Obama is going to win. I do...

Between the years 2000-2008, Republicans came to your house and burnt it to the ground. Four years later, Democrats have rebuilt your house ...

I just returned to the Internet today expecting to catch up on Hurricane Sandy twitter hashtags and facebook updates when lo and behold t...

As regional Long Islanders are well aware, recently Long Island lost its one and only professional sports franchise when the NY Islanders de...