That was the challenge last night on "Top Chef," which this post won't spoil, but there are spoilers at here , where I read about it. (I haven't watched this season of "Top Chef." Maybe I'll catch …
Here's the lobby of my hotel. Does it look familiar? Have you been here? There's a nice fire over there in the fireplace. Isn't that what you want, a roaring fire on the last day of July? I drove the Great Basin Highw…
The previous post is about a ridiculous -- and ridiculously long -- article in the NYT about how women cheat on their husbands [and boyfriends] with the contractors who work on their house. It begins with an anecdote about a gu…
That's the art dealer's description of Andy Warhol's "Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot)," which just sold for $11.8 million . So do we like the torn label soup can better than the untorn soup c…
An essay about a book on the subject of "cunning." (Via A&L Daily .) The book is by a lawprof, Don Herzog. As Herzog says, the cunning learn how to mimic the virtuous. And the clever mimic the dull ("Do you su…
Ward Churchill spoke at UW-Whitewater last night. The American Mind has a lot of photos of the pro- and anti-Churchill doings outside the hall. Here 's the Badger Herald's report on the speech: Churchill ... lashed out a…
So far, the theme for today's seems to be food, a humble little theme that just accidentally seems to have established itself, so let's continue with it. 1. The big food story of the day is that the astronauts are running…
Too much ready-made humor. Dawn of the Dead has defeated The Passion of The Christ at the boxoffice this weekend. The potential for jokes in bad taste about rising from the dead is disturbing. Would Letterman or Leno go for the…