Commenter Chip Ahoy responds to this post about the commenter known as blogging cockroach . He's adapted and animinated the beautiful "archy and mehitabel" drawing by George Herriman. Now, of course, our blogging c…
Link. Possible responses: 1. You're 38 and it's your second marriage, no one cares about your pretentious chastity, and this is lame publicity seeking. 2. When you're old enough to be jaded about everything, this is …
Damn, it's such good advice: He should forget entirely about reelection and focus solely on helping the nation at a critical time. He should dismiss the people who helped him win the election and bring in people who are above…
"... with BBC Bailly saying "howdy, So-Young!" to her like they are at a Texas BBQ instead of the greatest spelling competition EVER, with So-Young thinking and pronouncing and pronouncing and thinking and asking f…
On the list of Stuff White People Like: White people love rules. It explains why so they get upset when people cut in line, why they tip so religiously and why they become lawyers. But without a doubt, the rule system that white …
"... or confounding Dr. Bailly with impromptu Napoleon Dynamite impressions." "In a way, I think it’s that these kids are not just good – they are so much better than I am at something that I have done almost every…
Says Nasty, Brutish & Short in the context of discussing that diavlog that I had with Robin Givhan. (I corrected the spelling of "Dolley" above and in the quote below.) It's a long episode of Bloggingheads, but…
Drawn from Buddhism, but secularized: As summer looms, students at dozens of schools across the country are trying hard to be in the present moment. This is what is known as mindfulness training, in which stress-reducing techniqu…
Of course, I'm watching the Spelling Bee, and of course, I'm for Isabel Jacobson, the speller from Madison, Wisconsin. So many great spellers have gone down in this first prime time round, and suddenly we see that there i…
Linda Greenhouse is highlighting Justice Ginsburg's decision to read two of her dissenting opinions from the bench this year. In both, Ginsburg spoke for herself and the other three liberal Justices (Stephens, Souter, and Br…
Checking Site Meter this morning, I can see I'm getting a lot of visitors searching for things like "Prince Superbowl silhouette" and "Prince Super Bowl silhouette." (The incorrect one word spelling seems …
You remember Hirshman's "maybe goddesses have some hypnotic effect on policy wonks," which I flagged here without comment (because I'd already had my say about the WaPo op-ed on the blog and on Bloggingheads.T…
Brilliant New Criterion editor Roger Kimball writes about the horrendous Hans Neuenfels production of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo": Mr. Neuenfels's version is Modern German--i.e., gratuitously offensive. It is mor…
It's been over a century since a name has gotten so popular so quickly. And we know exactly why it happened. It's these characters: She's the original Nevaeh, and he's Sonny Sandoval, the Christian rock star who …
Edward Rothstein writes : An ant climbs a blade of grass, over and over, seemingly without purpose, seeking neither nourishment nor home. It persists in its futile climb, explains Daniel C. Dennett at the opening of his new book,…
You often hear about people who can speed talk or speed read, John observes, but what about speed listening? That's an impressive skill. Yes, I'd like to see a speed listening contest -- on ESPN, like the National Spellin…
Here 's the text of the speech President Bush made last night. Lately, he's been quite talkative, hasn't he? I like his new approach of speaking up frequently, because his critics will never observe a quiet spell. Eve…
"Brokeback Mountain," the high-class film everyone thinks must be called the "gay cowboy movie," is doing extremely well in the few theaters where it has opened -- in NYC, LA, and San Francisco. The question i…
Now that we've defined what a gadget is, let's identify the top 100 gadgets of all time. Or, let the fighting begin by having one magazine -- Mobile PC -- identify the top 100 gadgets of all time . Most of them are either…
Blogger has its good days and bad. I have no idea why. But the last few days have been awful, as it slowly grinds away and you gradually go from wondering when it will ever finish a task to worrying whether it will destroy your p…