Who knew?The closest I have ever gotten to the secret and inner Tolkien was in a casual conversation on a snowy day in Shelbyville, Kentucky. I forget how in the world we came to talk about Tolkien at all, but I began plying questions as soon...
Ace Rothstein:The cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it.
The Thanksgiving feast was a total success. I followed much of Alton Brown's (and your) advice. Lots of photos taken of the delicious maple-glazed turkey, sourdough & porcini mushroom stuffing,.
Back from Canada, but off to bucolic New England to celebrate your phoney-baloney version of Thanksgiving. In the meantime, I have to agree that while probably less destructive to political discourse Collins's columns have even less content than Dowd's...
While we're on the topic of Slate contrarians, here's Mickey reacting to the Korb/Katulis/Podesta op-ed:When you write a sentence like:the progress being made at the local level often undermines the.
And after all that, nothing. Saletan writes two columns purporting to demonstrate not simply that African-Americans are inherently intellectually inferior to whites, but that liberals who question this finding are.
After scurrying around to file a document with a court before the holiday, I spent the afternoon attending to the last minute Thanksgiving food shopping. The greenmarket was truly impressive today -- mushrooms, eggs, apples, turkeys, bison, root veggies . . . pretty much everything you...
Gregg Easterbrook is, evidently, still alive and still writing, and he's still a deranged lunatic. If you listen to right wing culture warriors, you know they are adept at concocting.
So these people are excited for some reason about this map, which claims to tracks "terrorism and suspicious activity" across the planet. For those who've forgotten that the world is.
Yglesias reports on a survey that shows we are making progress. This was the question asked in the survey: "Some people feel that women should have an equal role with men in running business, industry and government. Others feel that women's place is in the home....
The Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal to the D.C. Circuit decision striking down D.C.'s handguns ban. I'll have more discussion about this later, but to stimulate discussion.
Gainer The Gopher sez: Slappy Who?One advantage to being in Canada right now is that sportswriters are much more preoccupied with such matters as the epochal Riders/Lions tilt and much.