Don DeLillo's new novel about 9/11 is out. It's been 30 years since the publication of Players, the first of DeLillo's works to deal with the the psychology, organization and aftermath of terrorism; among that novel's more ominous tones, the central character, Pammie, works at...
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This is horrible....31 so far. How is that even possible?
What on earth is a story about a designer who's been accused of rape by a number of models, some underage, doing in the Style Section? Because the women were.
The Times has a great followup article today to yesterday's great article on the federal Election Assistance Commission's decision to baselessly exaggerate the magnitude of fraud by individual voters. Today's article looks at changes in the Justice Department's standards for prosecuting voter fraud, and at...
From Life magazine, 26 September 1955, weeks after massive Arab revolts in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria -- and a corresponding wave of French colonial violence -- claimed nearly 1000 lives.
Ugh.I've been wracking my brain for about 15 minutes now, trying to think of the most idiotic thing I've ever heard uttered in a meeting (excluding my own bovine contributions)..
I probably shouldn't dabble in theology, but this contradiction doesn't seem like much of a contradiction:But once you recognize homosexuality as a genetic reality, it does create a theological dilemma for the Mohlers among us, for it means that God is making people who, in...
For several years now, I've tried to explain to my wife that every 12-year-old boy harbors a secret fantasy of being rescued by a helicopter. As my wife teaches 7th.
Dick Vitale for Hooters.The prospect of seeing it again is almost enough to keep me away from the Bellagio Sports Book. Almost....don't blame me for the embed. A commenter made.
God knows there's no shortage of Bush administration perpetrated outrages, the worst of which involve people dying hellish deaths. And so from that perspective this one may seem minor. But it's important: it's going to be up to the historians to tell the full story...
The latest post on his health problems is kind of scary. And while other people have been keeping his blog going since he's been sick, it just isn't the same.
I don't much care, really, if Scooter Libby is pardoned or not; while he certainly deserves it, there's no particular good that will come of his actually going to jail..