I was rather annoyed, while eating dinner in my hotel's retaurant, that they sat a party at the table next to me well after what I was told was the closing time, which I had hurried to make. As tuxedo- and fancy dress-clad people slowly trickled...
This is perhaps the stupidest question I'll ever ask on this blog, but here it is:Which of the following layover scenarios strikes y'all as the least hideous?(a) Eight hours in.
Loomis does some good work with Old Slow Trot, George Thomas. Thomas was, for all intents and purposes, written out of history because he didn't conform to the post-reconstruction archetype.
Today is the anniversary of the massacre of Union soldiers at Ft. Pillow, Tennessee, in 1864. Located in Jackson Henning, Tennessee, about 40 miles from Memphis, the fortress complex had been abandoned by the Confederate Army and occupied by 300 Tennessee cavalrymen and 300 Union troops....
Awful, and getting worse. But John McCain can briefly walk around a market with air cover and 100 troops, so the surge is working wonderfully!
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.
For the second time in recent months, a young woman is being charged with the crime of self-induced abortion, or attempt thereof.Via Shakesville, here's the most recent story: West Monroe woman is accused of trying to kill her fetus, Oswego County sheriff's reports said. The 24-year-old...
Breakfast of Champions was the first Vonnegut book I ever read, and I have to say it really messed me up for quite some time when I was 13 years.
Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007. Rest in peace. You will be missed.When the last living thinghas died on account of us,how poetical it would beif Earth could say,in a voice floating upperhapsfrom.
As indicated below, I will be conferencing in Chicago this week and lecturing in Kentucky next week, so will be popping in only sporadically. The good news is that the familiar LizardBreath of Unfogged and a new face, Bean of the terrific (and stylishly designed) a...
On this date in 1938, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America sprung forth into the world in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As it turns out,.
Matt beat me to it, but this is a terrific article in the New York Times about GOP attempts to cover up the fact that voter fraud is a problem.