10:39 AM
Feb 03
2012

BLOG: Candidate parodies 'Dumb and Dumber'

 Graham Veysey, the Cleveland Democrat who is running against Marcy Kaptur and Dennis Kucinich in the Democratic primary for the U.S. House, has released a new campaign video that parodies the movie "Dumb and Dumber."

05:55 PM
Jan 30
2012

BLOG: OK, we can all hate Sweden now

Newly-uncovered documents show that the Nobel Prize for Literature committee discussed considering J.R.R. Tolkien for the prize in 1961 but dismissed him as not good enough.

05:45 PM
Jan 26
2012

BLOG: Star Wars, as you've never seen it before!

While we wait for the new 3-D versions of "Star Wars" there's a hilarious new free version anyone can watch on the Internet.

During 2009, thousands of Star Wars fans made 15-second segments that turned the original Star Wars movie into snippets of fan films.

03:51 PM
Jan 18
2012

BLOG: Brown favors SOPA and PIPA, Kaptur and Latta oppose

(Updated with Sherrod Brown statement). Many of the Internet's most popular sites, such as Wikipedia and Boing Boing, have gone black today to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act.

01:37 PM
Jan 18
2012

BLOG: Download Bang on a Can

Rock music is dead, so why not try something else?

Contemporary classical music is still kind of an underground movement, but there's plenty of interesting music to excite the ear.

01:58 PM
Jan 12
2012

BLOG: Ohio's dumb election laws

Ohio is a key "swing state" in every presidential election. Given our importance in national politics, why can't we clean up Ohio's dumb election laws? Here are two problems that need fixing immediately.

1). In almost every local election, a qualified candidate is kicked off the ballot because of a problem  in his nominating petition.

04:25 PM
Jan 10
2012

BLOG: Can men and women be "just friends"?

A Utah State student, wondering whether men and women can be "just friends," tries to settle the question by interviewing every student he could find in the library. (He wanted to know what the scholars would say).

The women all said yes, the men said no:

01:40 PM
Jan 09
2012

BLOG: A district built for Kaptur -- and Redfern?

The Plain Dealer's Brett Larkin says the latest version of the 9th District was drawn up to help Chris Redfern run for Congress. Redfern says that's false.

03:41 PM
Dec 22
2011

BLOG: Christmas music on the Internet

As we head into the Christmas season, a few reminders about the wealth of Christmas music on the Internet.

I like old, traditional Christmas music. No "rap Christmas" or "punk Christmas" or "heavy metal Christmas" for me. My favorite classical music station, WQXR, has a holiday music channel.

10:46 AM
Dec 20
2011

BLOG: NOW will you support Newt for president?

Earlier this year, I used this blog as a platform to endorse Newt Gingrich for president, arguing that Newt, among the GOP candidates, provides the best chance of hours of entertainment while Washington is ruining our lives.