Open thread...
The NYRB has a fascinating piece on Wikipedia; it's technically a review of a book called Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, but mostly it's a natural history of the site, with.
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.
From Wing Nut News (er I mean Right Wing News), we get a feature of "hot female conservative bloggers" or something like that (ok, the title doesn't include "hot" but.
After a false alarm last year, it appears that the Australians have begun an effort in earnest to find the wrecks of the Kormoran and the Sydney:Deep-water sonar imaging equipment.
My worth-very-little guess is that the most likely outcome is that (with Clinton winning OH and RI, and Obama carrying VT) Obama wins the delegates in Texas and Clinton squeaks out a popular vote victory there. Should that come to pass, I think most of what...
Remember yesterday when the Washington Post made room for Charlotte Allen's screed? Well, apparently the whole thing was just one tongue-in-cheek big ol' joke. Just like Joel Stein. Funny, I'm.
Omar Little vs. Anton Chigurh?
News flash: Great writers often partake of the sauce:Prudent writers learn to take more out of drink than it takes out of them. Kingsley Amis, in a 1975 interview, prescribed a glass of Scotch as an "artistic icebreaker." John Mortimer told the New York Times that...
Great. I wonder how many children will get seriously ill because John McCain encouraged their parents not to vaccinate them based on crank pseudo-science?
Armando, like several commenters, isolates this passage in the Jeffrey Rosen op-ed I blogged about yesterday and uses it to reject the entire analysis:Mr. Obama . . . is not.