The American Film Institute released its top 100 movie lines of all time. Rhett Butler's "frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" (from Gone with the Wind), was number one.

Bill Moyers talks with Democracy Now! about the conservative attack on PBS and Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the U.S.

While I like Steam Whistle beer as much as the next guy (OK, more than the next guy), I wouldn't put an ad for them in the editorial part of my blog without labelling it as such.

The Torontoist has no such qualms.

The star of Rick Mercer's Monday Report (that would be His Rickness) has joined the blogging ranks.

For a taste, here was his first post, made Monday at 9:11 a.m.:

You always remember your first....

Like many big personal firsts the anticipation is huge but it will probably turn out to be anticlimactic, clumsily executed and mercifully short.

Yup... I was right.

For some reason, I like the idea of a benefit concert by one-hit-wonder bands for the benefit of one-hit-wonder bands.

But for a two hour-concert, assuming everyone played just their one hit, you'd likely need between 40 and 60 bands.

How many legitimate one-hit-wonder bands exist, meaning that you'd like one last chance to hear that one hit performed live?

A Pakistani woman gang-raped on the orders of her local tribal council, but who then successfully went after her attackers in the courts, has been thwarted from travelling to the United States by Pakistan's government.

Mukhtar Mai spoke with Democracy Now!

The Wachowski brothers will launch Vendetta on Nov. 4 -- the day before the 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes day.

The possible connection is their film is about the overthrowal of a corrupt, fascistic British government -- and blowing up Parliament in the process.

An NYT review of a new film that studies the lives of four members of the working poor class in the United States.

Is a loathing of taxes or social injustice bred in the bone? Some political scientists are considering the possibility.