

When Bad Beer Happens to Good People
It's about time I found a good excuse to post on beer. It's a beverage which -- particularly in the [...]
07.22.08 | by Bernie Heidkamp
Fun with Gender: The Future Present of "Y: Last Man"
When Brian K. Vaughan's science fiction comic epic Y: The Last Man began several years ago, [...]
07.17.08 | by Bernie Heidkamp
A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Censorship
You can't say the word "nigger" or any other "profanity" in Wilmette, Illinois. Or at least you [...]
07.16.08 | by Bernie Heidkamp
Who Should be Obama's Best Friend?
We love dogs here at PopPolitics. And we love Best Friends Animal Society -- a great organization [...]
07.15.08 | by Bernie Heidkamp
First and Last Rule of Satire: Know Your Audience
Plenty is being said about the new New Yorker cover that features Barack Obama in Muslim dress [...]
07.14.08 | by Bernie Heidkamp
A Long, Strange First Half of the Season It's Been ...
I read the other day that Wednesday, July 16, is the only day of the year in which there is no [...]
07.14.08 | by Richard C. Crepeau
Take Me Out to a Truly American Ballgame
Update: Here's the comprehensive article I had been looking for on the history of "Take Me Out to [...]
07.08.08 | by Bernie Heidkamp
The Glorious Way the Ball Bounces
It was a magnificent tennis match. Two evenly matched players, who admired each other's game, [...]
07.08.08 | by Richard C. Crepeau
Obama, America and Race -- Seriously, Folks
A couple of recent articles tackle the question of race in America from two ends of the cultural [...]
07.04.08 | by Bernie Heidkamp
Hoping BagNewsNotes Weighs In On This One ...
Seriously, BagNewsNotes has been doing such a good job analyzing images of Obama and images of [...]
07.03.08 | by Bernie Heidkamp