An inaugural poem
By me
The New York Times on Christmas
"If you look back at the photos of Christmas 50 years ago — not that long a time, really — you can see what a simple place it once was."
Experts say
"Experts: they're smart!"
Store brands on the march
Store brands rise in popularity, though some name brands are inimitable.
Chuck E. Cheese's's [sic] fight club
Fighting at C.E.C's restaurants, and a punctuation dilemma.
November 11
From the New York Times: "Today is the 90th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War, and it will be commemorated very differently on each side of the Atlantic and across the borders of Europe. It's a reminder that not all 'victors' experience wars in the same way, and that their citizens can have almost as much difficulty as those of the vanquished states in coping with the collective trauma of conflict."
Ye olde Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart selling miniature Wal-Marts, just in time for Christmas
Africa is a country
Link to a blog of that name, on media coverage of Africa
Priceless
Sarah Palin and Africa
A family photograph
A photograph of Barack Obama and his grandparents: "The Republican strategy in this campaign has been in large part to make voters think that Barack Obama is Not Like Us. There are two problems with that strategy. One is that Like Us no longer looks to many people like a compelling qualification for office. We're now wrapping up an eight-year-long lesson plan on that point."
No on 8
Excerpt from Andrew Sullivan
USA Arts
Streaming shows from Channel 13
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
A Muslim-American soldier
"Fake following"
This makes social networking not a game?
Joanna Newsom's items in a series
What Joanna Newsom loves about the United States
Charles Van Doren
Excerpt from a New Yorker piece by the key figure in the scandal surrounding the 1950s quiz show Twenty-One
Lawsuits of the young and entitled
Andrew Giuliani sues Duke University
Classic Arts Showcase background music
Who wrote those pieces? Bartok and Rossini
"[A]thletes, philosophers, sex symbols"
On the need for variety in human ways and means
Looking at Lincoln
The Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL
Classic Arts Showcase
Great free cable service
"Working, hard-working Americans"
The language of race in the Clinton campaign
Keith Woods on media and race
From the PBS NewsHour
Mildred Loving (1939-2008)
She challenged laws against "miscegenation" and advocated equal marriage rights for all.
Your name here U.
"University" apparel with your name on it
Feeding times
On feasting and feeding, Norman Rockwell and Sara Lee
The iWorld
Andrew Sullivan on technology and culture
Chicken strips and fries
On changing children's menus
Primates and morality
Interesting reading in today's New York Times , on primatologist Frans de Waal's contention that the origins of human morality are to be fou...
There's always be an England
Now with casinos!