Two of my favorite Christianity bloggers: Real Live Preacher and Slacktivist. I imagine that the Preacher, a.k.a. Gordon Atkinson, would enjoy Douglas Coupland's book All Families Are Psychotic, and now I find that Fred Clark …
If you are considering clothing purchases for yourself or others, and you are like me and know nothing of fashion or style, please read The Morning News on women's clothes and men's clothes. Or you …
A baby elephant. Another baby elephant. A tortoise. A baby penguin. A baby panda. A baby human. A baby human and a fake baby dog. An adult human and a fake otter.
Things to remember about the several hours after that last hope: Pizza, booze, CNN, increasingly grim jokes. I couldn't believe that Coburn won, Bunning won, that the GOP would be consolidating its control of the …
Things to remember about Election Day, November second, 2004: Going to sleep at 1:30 the morning of, crying and praying. I can't tell where the cold draft in my room is coming from, and it …
In other doctor's office news, Highlights for Children is still lots of fun. Their "caption this photo/cartoon" contests get much more creative entries than those in non-kids' magazines do.
This weekend, while using a generic cotton swab to clean my left ear, I got a ball of cotton lodged in my left ear. Leonard and I tried to float it out, to tweeze it …
If you ever visit my putative homepage, and you're viewing the page with graphics turned on, you'll see a bit of Russian at the bottom. "Ya mogu yest steklo; eto menya ne vredit," it says. …
Last year we lost and this year we didn't even enter; the person who usually does these sorts of things was out. This year I'm betting the folk-guitar "Vote for John Kerry" song will stick …
Andrew Leonard makes me cry and Malcolm Gladwell convinces me I'll never be a genius. Neither of these is a difficult goal.
