I can't find a news report about it yet, but the buzz is that Gary Gygax, founder of Dungeons and Dragons, passed away this morning. I played my first game of D&D at the age of eight with the basic rule set, and in the...
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William F. Buckley has shuffled off his mortal coil. For want of something useful to say, I'll just link to this account of a conversation on a NRO cruise between.
In Lexington, Kentucky, somebody coughed up $17,000 on Friday night for what were supposed to be four strands of George Washington's hair.Christa Allen, a Colorado woman who once lived in.
Another argument for the existence of Hell.Conservatives are prone to all sorts of uncontrolled yapping about the "Asian bloodbath" that followed the American loss in Vietnam. The bogosity of those claims need not detain us here, except to point out that they almost universally fail...
By the time I started playing, Bobby Fischer was long gone from the American chess scene. We know today that he was still around, giving the occasional interview or lesson,.
R.I.P. I strongly recommend this grimly fascinating article about him.
The Times has a year-end tribute to Steve Gilliard.
Robert Craig Knievel, Jr.1938-2007A lot of folks have asked me over the last couple of years why I named that other site after Evel Knievel. I don't have an especially.
Well, he certainly didn't get to enjoy that Medal of Freedom for long. I suppose Hyde will be remembered best for enabling the federal government to arbitrarily punish poor women.
Rob has already mentioned the untimely passing of Sean Taylor; hopefully those who shot him will be brought to justice. And although he's a less prominent athlete, I should also note the death of Joe Kennedy. Most baseball fans have some sore-armed veteran trying to...
Norman Mailer, R.I.P. Between his misogyny and authenticity-obsessed nutty politics -- whatever one thinks of the aesthetic quality of the work, I would avoid a first date with a guy.
1923-2007.Mailer has been a relative blind spot among American novelists for me; I've only read The Naked and the Dead (on the subject I prefer James Jones) and Armies of.