Oct 07,2008
Too hot for NBC
I can’t imagine why this SNL skit is being scrubbed from the Interweb series of tubes.
Oct 07,2008
The Base Base
I’ve always found it apt when the everyman supporters of a political movement are called “the base”. As a coastal elitist snob, I often heap scorn on the base elements...
Oct 07,2008
We didn't want that Nobel anyway
I share Adam Kirsch’s frustration and pique regarding the statements by the Nobel academy’s permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl, that Americans haven’t gotten the Nobel recently because “[t]he U.S. is too...
Oct 07,2008
Horace Engdahl, meet Hiro Protagonist
I would like to second Dan’s distaste for the blatherings of Horace Engdahl, a name straight out of a Kingsley Amis novel. I would also like to second his appreciation...