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And I guess that applies to James Wolcott and I as well. Have Sarah Palin and George Jones ever been seen in the same place? And, collater...

One of those signs of a possible bottom of the Great Recession is that compared to (say) 9 months ago, a lot less of the time I spend worryi...

Unfortunate E-Mail Headline from The New Yorker's weekly update on items in their current issue: Sarah Palin, the obesity epidemic. Plac...

So I'm watching the remake of The End of the Affair , and I recognize the priest. And, sure enough, Jason Isaacs was, indeed, one of th...

In about 3.5 hours, Stevie Wonder will officially open the Montreal Jazz Festival with a free concert less than a klometer from where I am n...

Yes, Youngest Daughter got to pick the movie for Father's Day/her birthday. Her review: "It was boring." Even worse: that wa...

After reading this , and weeping a bit, some Deep Thoughts: 1. If the nice people at Fort Meade already have a bunch of quantum computers in...

Susan of Texas has an immortal post on the housing crisis, McMegan's ratiocination, and the persistence of ignorant memes. The Onion ES...

It's increasingly looking like the best explanation for Stanley Fish's "Think Again" column is that its "author...

Have Lenny Dykstra and Beowulf Shaeffer ever been seen together? Collateral question: Has Jim Cramer ever gotten anything correct?

Last year, John's chaser broke (irreparably, as it happens) at a joint that allows the long neck that connects its frame to the hitch t...

As the so-far happy owner of a 2009 Honda Fit , I read the results of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's minicar crash tests ...

Thomas Frank : As the mad-as-hell come together to proclaim their outrage, all the well-known earmarks of right-wing populism will no doubt ...

A fund of fund(s) that funneled money — including a portion of the late Madison Cultural Arts District trust fund — into the Madoff scam is...