"... to stay on the safe side, please include H itself, though I think I have mostly exhausted it. ... The complete works again of Count Leo Tolstoy. ... Charles Dickens, either in blessed entirety or in any touching shape o…
1. Obama wants to bankrupt to bankrupt the coal industry (and the SF Chronicle sat on the audiotape). 2. Josh Marshall slurs Joe the Plumber as "Joe the Skinhead." 3. Jonah Goldberg pretend-looks back on the Obama presi…
Said the new Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari , after today's horrific bombing. In America, we like to quote Lincoln: No nobler reply ever fell from the lips of a ruler, than that uttered by President Lincoln in response …
Says the 8-year-old girl Nojud Mohammed Ali , whose lawyer said "I believe there are thousands of similar cases" in Yemen. In other news from the Middle East: A Turkish barber accused of swearing at God is sentenced to …
I've been recording... and avoiding. But now I'm taking a look. [ADDED: Link to news story about the Compassion Forum.] The first question, to Hillary Clinton, is perfect: Why criticize Barack Obama for saying that peopl…
"The 20th century, with its scores of millions of supernumerary dead, has been called the age of ideology. And the age of ideology, clearly, was a mere hiatus in the age of religion, which shows no sign of expiry. Since it i…
John Tierney wonders, and really, haven't you been worrying about this possibility for a long time? [I]f you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of [Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom], it is almost a mathematical certainty t…
That's a quote from Joe Lieberman , from the debate in the Senate over amending the foreign surveillance laws. The administration and congressional Democrats agree on the need to update the FISA statute to reflect the realiti…
I'm seeing the same thing in two different places this morning, so let me bring it to your attention. (Only very mild spoilers ahead.) Here 's Stephen Bainbridge: I think the ending was absolutely in keeping with the teno…
Said Paris Hilton , talking about jail and claiming that it's time for her to stop playing dumb. She might start by realizing that jail is a cage. And that everyone feels terrible about going there. But I look forward to t…
This is getting bizarre! Are people really watching? Anyway... I'm going to watch. I'll try to pay more attention tonight, now that "The Sopranos" aren't on. ( It's on CNN , at what I like to call 6 Cent…
Says Damien Hirst , who seems to be laughing the hardest, as he sells a diamond-encrusted skull for $100 million. The dazzle of the diamonds might outshine any meaning Hirst attaches to it, and that could be a problem. Its value …
Drudge is collecting thing s Imus is saying on the radio today about his predicament. And here 's a summary of what Howard Stern has said about it: Artie said that when you've been on the air for that long, you should hav…
R.I.P. His novels — 14 in all — were alternate universes, filled with topsy-turvy images and populated by races of his own creation, like the Tralfamadorians and the Mercurian Harmoniums. He invented phenomena like chrono-synclas…
So Nancy Pelosi is visiting Syria , and President Bush is calling it "unhelpful." There's plenty of political theater here. The most telling fact, in my view, is that Republican members of Congress have gone to Syri…
There's a rose garden -- complete with historical plaque -- on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol: Closeup: And let us also embrace the beauty of what happens when God and Man and Pigeon work together.
I'm watching Hillary Clinton doing her town hall meeting in Des Moines , Iowa. A man -- Representative Leonard Boswell -- is introducing her. He ends by waving his arm around and saying: "We wish you every success."…
That sounds like the alarmism of a religious fundamentalist, but hostility to scientific research comes from the progressive side when the question is the source of sexual preference. That quote is from Martina Navratilova, who …