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Unfortunate Juxtaposition 25 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
Why you should never trust a computer algorithm to arrange any part of your web-page for you – seen today (off and on) on PJMedia:
How insulated from American reality is the Washington Post? 2 Mar 2013 | 12:21 am
One of today’s InstaPundit posts, in full: IN THE WAPO, A SHOCKING DISCOVERY: For some, lessons of boyhood include learning to shoot and hunt. I’m not going to bother to follow the link and read the a...
An Opportunity Missed 20 Oct 2012 | 11:29 pm
Charlie Parker fans will be disappointed to hear that none of the six hotels in Camarillo, California is a Relax Inn. What bebop fan wouldn’t want the opportunity to use the phrase ‘Relax Inn at Camar...
Weird News out of Canada 7 Oct 2012 | 09:26 am
That someone has been stealing massive quantities of maple syrup in Quebec is certainly news, but not particularly weird. What is weird is what the Fox News story mentions in passing as apparently unr...
Compare and Contrast 21 Aug 2012 | 09:25 am
A recent picture of Obama, seen on JustOneMinute and other sites: A month ago today, InstaPundit reprinted a picture of Jacques Chirac from several years ago (“Ah, that old Chirac photo never fails to...
Hmmmm . . . . 5 Aug 2012 | 09:44 am
While shopping for groceries this morning, I finally figured out why it always bothers me to see stacked-up bags of dogfood brand-named ‘Old Yeller’. It looks like they really wanted to name it ‘Soyle...
Happy Birthday, Mr. James 2 Aug 2012 | 08:41 am
Today is the 150th birthday of Montague Rhodes (‘M. R.’) James. Go to this University of Adelaide website and read at least one of his ghost stories.
Happy Birthday, Ivan Alexandrovich 19 Jun 2012 | 08:57 am
I’d been thinking of tackling some long novel I’d never read over the summer break, and having trouble deciding which of the many such books to begin with, when I noticed that today is Ivan Goncharov’...
Maybe I’ve Been Reading LanguageHat Too Long . . . 29 May 2012 | 03:36 am
. . . since I misread Tim Blair’s post about a Prince concert in Sydney as saying that it took place at “Allophones Arena”. I suppose Allphones is an Australian telephone company. (Don’t tell me: if I...
Am I Overthinking This? 7 Apr 2012 | 10:09 am
If “Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage”, does that mean that love is subjected to slavery for the convenience of marriage? An interesting simile, when you thin...
