No shopping is required (unless you still need to buy your aluminum pole), but you should know that just ten days remain before Festivus. In the spirit of the holidays, I have made a donation in my readers’ names to the Human Fund.
The Associated Press Stylebook says: obscenities, profanities, vulgarities Do not use them in stories unless they are part of direct quotations and there is a compelling reason for them. Try to find a way to give the reader a sense of what was said without using the specific word or phrase. What silliness! If a [...]
I don’t follow basketball, but — starting today — I do read basketballers’ blogs. I gather that Gilbert Arenas is something of a character; his weblog is priceless (this post is timestamped December 29, 2006 — three weeks in the future): I brang out the hibachi against Dallas. That’s when I first started saying it, [...]
I saw For Your Consideration last night, and I consider it awful. Not relatively awful, in a “Christopher Guest is off his game, but this is still better than most movies” kind of way. It’s just a bad, bad, bad, bad movie. No one involved with it should have agreed to its release. The degree [...]
Way back in May, I wrote that Pennsylvania’s Primary Election Day had been “a good day for right-wing bedwetters in my parents’ neighborhood,” thanks to child candidate Mark Harris’ victory over an incumbent Republican state representative. Not surprisingly, especially in Democrat-friendly 2006 and extra-especially in a district that has been trending Democratic for years, young [...]