Sometimes, One Must Choose One’s Words Carefully So As Not To Offend [Duan!]
Meet Tatiana Montoyo. She is the starting point guard on the Syracuse Central Tech junior varsity girls’ basketball team. She is also 3′10″ tall. I vow to not drop the “big heart” line.
Tatiana, 15, was born with short-limbed dwarfism, a condition that did […]
Liveblogging the WGAs
slumdog millionaire wins best adapted screenplay [carpetbagger] the carpetbagger is attending the east coast event of the wga awards. and he says he will be liveblogging them like he did last year. so we lacuna. but while we do, check out his short talk with soon-to-be wga champion, simon beaufoy: mr. beaufoy added […]
Rookie five
there’s a a man-accommodation schoolhouse down the road from where we live. when i drive by, as i do almost every day, i evaluate nearby the girls and boys who sat near the coal stove, studied at the time-worn wooden desks, played outside in the tone of the vast prior trees.
More than a century […]
The Oxford House program lets recovering addicts help themselves
One day last month, Angie McAdams was dumped by her longtime boyfriend.
The 47-year-old felt the urge to drink or snort cocaine to deal with the emotional pain.
But she had to think twice. She enjoyed living in the house near Lawrence Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard that she had […]
Did the Boss go Milli Vanilli at the Super Bowl?
Lost in all the hullabaloo over Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl appearance, Wal-Mart apology and scathing attack on Ticketmaster is the revelation that Springsteen’s heralded E Street Band … didn’t actually play live at the Super Bowl.
As the Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot reveals in this interview […]
Major Breaking download comedy movie News in Associated Press-Shepard Fairey Kerfuffle: DF Files Suit, Accuses AP of Copyright Infringement
losanjealous has just received set forth of a major development related to the copyright infringement lawsuit associated hurry has threatened against artist shepard fairey. the ap crime movies has claimed that fairey wrongfully appropriated their photograph […]
The Terrorists’ Mother of Death
this is an terrible-looking story, strangely reported. here are the essentials:
so infrequently umm al-mumineen is in the slammer, accused of what she has been video-taped confessing. there isn’t any notice of when her trial will be, at least not as far as i could grasp.here’s the strange part of the story […]
Watch out for the new New Deal
this wsj article by economics professors harold l. cole and le e. ohanian is a good summary of the reasons some have come to feel that fdr’s new deal actually prolonged the depression more readily than helping the situation. it’s a cautionary tale of government intervention, in which the […]
John Lundberg: Is The Super Bowl Poetic?
It started early this morning: the slow motion replays set to rock music; the deep, dramatic voiceovers. And it will build to a fever pitch tonight with a divalicious rendition of the national anthem, roaring fighter jets, and (in case you forgot) a football game. Yes, the occasional snap […]