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Thinking grad school for humanities?
Think again, says Thomas H. Benton, aka William Pannapacker.
Obama’s astericks
During almost two years on the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to slay the demons of Washington, bar lobbyists from his administration and usher in what he would later call in his Inaugural Address a “new era of responsibility.” What he did not talk much about were the asterisks. The exceptions that went unmentioned now […]
Oozing Beltway slime
How serious Obama is about health care reform remains to be seen. Obama supporters argue that Obama needs someone like Daschle, with credibility within the health care industry, in order to achieve real reform. That’s the standard explanation for most of what Obama does (he’s only courting the establishment in order to change it), and though […]
Birmingham bans apostrophes
A city in England apparently overwhelmed by complaints over the punctuation of certain street signs has decided to throw in the towel on apostrophes, according to a Telegraph article that reads like a piece from The Onion. The Birmingham City Council recently said goodbye to the apostrophe on signs for St. Paul’s Square and other […]
Beneath the facade, a fragile man
Although Haggard’s work to “save” other homosexual men from their sinful ways has made him an enemy of gay people everywhere, Pelosi’s film strips away the knee-jerk assumptions about him to show us a fragile man trying desperately to keep his life together. More important, his struggle to stay in the good graces of his […]
Is sprawl killing the postal service?
Blogger Rob Pitingolo floats an interesting theory over at Extraordinary Observations about a possible relationship between suburban sprawl and the problems with the U.S. postal service. It makes sense. I mean, can we really blame $2.8 billion in losses all on e-mail?
A&P
Another Updike classic.
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
Classic Updike.