Friday, January 28, 2005

My New Hero

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"Here's to good friends, tonight is kinda special..."
Thursday, January 27, 2005

Sly Like A Fox

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In the recent hubbub about Rolling Stone's refusal to run an ad for Zondervan’s new TNIV Bible (and the magazine’s eventual reversal ),...
Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Microphone-Stained Wretches

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Stephen Rodrick at Slate has an indespensible column about how the lure of stardom is destroying America's sports columnists. Mos...

That Is Funny, Funny Stuff

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When I followed Michael Spencer's link at the Boar's Head Tavern to this piece by Larry Miller in the Weekly Standard, I had no in...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

The Great Carsoni

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David Edelstein gets a lot right (though not quite everything) in his appreciation of Johnny Carson at Slate. His is the first tribute I...

"To Blog, Or Not To Blog..."

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You know what I'm getting a bit sick of? Tedious blog posts about blogging . Everywhere I turn on the Internet, more and more blogs ...
Monday, January 24, 2005

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

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Simply put, Johnny was the King. Nobody, and I mean nobody , has ever owned the medium of television the way Johnny Carson did. He made wh...
Friday, January 21, 2005

The Onion: Supreme Court To Break Up If Rehnquist Leaves

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From The Onion : Bernard Tomaine, publisher of the Supreme Court fanzine The Docket , characterized Rehnquist's role as "essential....

Second Term-inator

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Peggy Noonan, not exactly what you would call a Bush critic, has some trenchant thoughts on the president's rather frightening inaugura...
Wednesday, January 19, 2005

McChurch

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The Chicago Tribune this past Sunday ran a story (free registration required) on the newest trend in evangelical megachurches: franchising....
Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Juris(im)prudence

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American University, the site of last week's Scalia-Breyer discussion, has posted a transcript of the event online in case you haven...
Monday, January 17, 2005

Judge For Yourself

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If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend you carve out an hour and a half to watch the discussion/debate that aired this weekend o...
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

The Thinker

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One of the most amusing pop-culture conceits of recent years has been the notion that rappers are secretly intellectual. Universities now e...
Tuesday, January 11, 2005

American Bedstand

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In the wake of the Aniston/Pitt split (Is nothing sacred anymore? If you can't count on a Hollywood marriage, what can you count on?), ...
Friday, January 07, 2005

Sinking Like A Stone

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So I see that Oliver Stone is blaming the epic failure of his most recent piece of egomaniacal bloat on "raging fundamentalism" i...
Thursday, January 06, 2005

G.I. Jane

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A gal I work with has a son in the Army. A while back, he married a girl (also in the Army) while stationed in Georgia, and they just had a...
Wednesday, January 05, 2005

They're Dancing As Fast As They Can

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Tony Blankley has a wonderful column today about the fool's errand the United States government has embarked upon in trying to win the ...
Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Stayin' Alive

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Other people of whom I find myself greatly surprised that they are still alive: Joey Bishop Arthur Miller "Grandpa" Al Lewis Do...

Birdie, Birdie, Not Yet In The Sky

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Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson has been hospitalized for bronchitis, leading to the inevitable question: Lady Bird Johnson is still al...
Friday, December 31, 2004

What Is A "Beguine," Anyway?

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Big Band leader Artie Shaw has died in Thousand Oaks, California, leading to the inevitable question: Good grief, Artie Shaw was still aliv...