Day By Day: I've added Day By Day to the sidebar. I realized tonight I've missed a week of it, because I always read it on Cassand...

Conspiracy: You know who's conspiring to wreck the country? Those darn Republicans : Consider a thought experiment. Imagine you active...

Courtesy: ...in which the Governor of New Jersey has a polite conversation with the head of the state teachers' union. "I don't...

(Don't) Talk Like a Yankee: To go with T99's post about Dixie language from yesterday, this article on New Yorkers who are trying t...

A Good Point about Public Virtue: Here : he cultural problem that we have today is something that Machiavelli identified over 500 years ago....

Suicide: We must take a moment to mark the passing of CDR Dennis Rocheford , chaplain, Catholic priest, and a man whom you will understand l...

Some Good Ideas: ...and a very few bad ones. Let's try to sort out which are which. We're speaking of Alasdair MacIntyre , whose th...

"You Know Whom I Hate? That Anne Boleyn." Apparently she was not popular with the ladies of late-Tudor England. Many years of ha...

How Dixie Are You? Test time . My sister and I are 76% and 77% Dixie; my husband is 67%. I don't think of myself as having a very stron...

Don't X-Ray My Junk I seem to have been born without any modesty to speak of, so I don't have strong feelings about being peeked at ...

Cowboys are universal. Ninjas. Damn . And I do not ever remember seeing this combination before: I guess that's literally universal with...

Annie... A highly sensible suggestion from... Salon magazine ?? I have decided that I will never tell my new beau about the physical abuse I...

Songs about Girls: In deference to T99, a song that the ever-charming (and rarely understandable) Pandora sent me about a girl who likes mac...

Yard Signs Apropos of Grim's story about the burglar.

Tin-Cup Urbanism Two articles today about the looming municipal bankruptcy problem: Steve Malanga at Real Clear Politics , and yesterday...

Black Keys I need cheering up today, so it's piano fun. This is Lang Lang fooling around in his rehearsal room with Chopin's "...

History & Philosophy: The first has normally been thought the proper education of princes; the latter, the road to the greatest possible...

"Please Refudiate." Apparently the New Oxford American Dictionary really liked that turn of phrase . Congratulations, Mrs. Palin!...

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A Question of Theory and Practice: What's the difference between this: And this: Acceptable answers include, "There's no differ...