If you haven’t been following the latest blogwar, in which a number of high-profile writers have been hurling hostilities with great abandon, you won’t find this post funny:
I refuse to engage in a blog-fight with Andrew Sullivan because he viciously refuses to link to me.
Personally, I laughed so hard my coffee […]
Somewhere between Atlanta’s no-knock warrant disaster, where an 88-year-old woman was killed in her apparently drug-free home by police, and New York’s 50-shot barrage that resulted in the death of a bridegroom, there seems to be a problem with some of the police.
Is it this?
Simply put, the police culture in our country has changed. An […]
Although victims of Katrina and Rita are scattered all over the United States, this news is likely to be received with a fair amount of hostility in Houston:
A judge ordered the federal government to resume paying rent and make three months of retroactive payments for about 2,600 hurricane evacuee households in Houston and thousands more […]
The water had barely started to rise in the streets of New Orleans when people started looking for someone to blame. Fingers were pointed in every direction — any direction but their own, or that of their interest group. The fault lay with: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bush administration, Governor Blanco, Mayor Nagin, […]
Coming in under the heading of “funny things we already knew”:
Women talk three times as much as men, says study
It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men.
DH (who hopefully won’t read this post) could have provided […]
Every year about this time, Adorable Child (AC) starts her Christmas List. She jots ideas down everywhere: napkins, magazine covers, the back of her hand… whatever surface she has that will hold ink. And heading each and every one of those lists for the last two years has been a cell-phone.
Why, exactly, does a ten-year-old […]
An AP story via the San Jose Mercury News says that, as a result of Michael Richards’ raging madness onstage earlier this month (earlier post here), they’re calling upon the entertainment industry to ban the “n-word”:
Black leaders on Monday challenged the entertainment industry, including rap artists, actors and major studios, to stop use of […]
Every year, I buy at least three boxes of greeting cards: one for the kids, with Santas, reindeer and snowmen with goofy expressions; one for my religious friends, with traditional Christian greetings and/or pictures of baby Jesus; and a third that’s as generic as possible (think sleighs, snow, and “Happy Holidays”).
You may be thinking, “Ah, […]
From an article in today’s Washington Post about the Iraq Study Group, and “centrism”:
Some participants said the Iraq Study Group should be a model of how to bring the nation’s wise men and women together to inject fresh perspective in solving the country’s biggest problems. But others said that it, too, had serious flaws.
Despite Iraq’s […]
While working my way through Thanksgiving leftovers this week (and the related refrigerator storage challenges), I’ve been amused by Andrew Sullivan’s learning curve about Mormons:
I had no idea about underwear. Is this an urban legend? Or is there something to it?
Suddenly, pictures of the sacred undies are all over the blogosphere, and everybody’s talking about […]