Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Oh, and this? I thought we were fighting them over there so we wouldn't have to fight them over here. I thought war and killing was su...

TTBOOK had another great program this week, this time about loneliness. You can take the UCLA Loneliness scale test here, if you want. I s...

Matthew 25: 35-46 [35] For I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:...

I finished Lorrie Moore's "A Gate at the Stairs", and it was gobsmackingly good. She is breathtaking. I read "Birds of Am...

A Charlie Pierce story, ten years old but no less relevant, about how the drive to cut down on government waste can hurt real people. God ...

I saw a wonderful television program-Spectacle, with Elvis Costello hosting a group of musicians. They play their own songs, and Elvis' ...

I first heard this song driving home from a girl's house, at an absurdly early hour. It was someone I had talked myself into being w...

Actress Brittany Murphy has died. Twitter pretty much exploded with the news, while I, only having access to Twitter at the time, was forced...

This is an Outside magazine profile of Laura and Guy Waterman. I heard about their story on the incomparably wondrous "To The Best Of ...

IMAGINATION! This  is the Imagination Prompt Generator, a little dohickey that gives you a prompt for those times when you're stumped ...

Well, after an off season that began with a Hermida, a Boof, a Tug, a Marco, and another Ramon Ramirez (because every team should have a spa...

This is Velvet Verbosity's 100 Words Challenge-write a post of exactly one hundred words centered on a given topic. This week's cha...

A very clever version of the Rick Astley video for "Never Gonna Give You Up", with a narration of the video's activities. Ve...

The irrepressible Dan Carlin (www.dancarlin.com) has another great Hardcore History program this week, this time about the history of childr...

This piece from the Wall Street Journal about writers and how they write, and this piece from Fake Steve Jobs, an imagined conversation wi...