Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

It's Palindrome Day on Twitter. 01-02-2010 backwards is, 01-20-2010. Does that mean I now have to everything I did today backwards? ...

Or, as the immortal Bono once put it, "Nothing changes...on New Year's Day..." So, we can take 2009 and relegate it to the b...

Jason Bay, formerly known as Everyone's Favorite Canadian, has flown the proverbial coop, leaving good sense and Boston behind to becom...

What do I win, you may ask? Well, nothing at all, but I did, in fact, win my Fantasy Football League this year. Thanks, in part, to Philad...

Well, we lost, because it came anyway. Anyway, someone sent a bulk email at work wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, then bragging parenth...

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 ...