"The History of English in 10 Minutes."

This video is truly great: Found via Smithsonian , where I'm finding so much great stuff this morning and wondering why I don't go h...

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

A quote that came up in conversation just now. I had to look it up to get it verbatim and was delighted to see it came from Samuel Johnson ,...

"You know, it really is surprising, because I feel like it's a retro-debate that took place in the 1950s..."

Olympia Snowe said. "It's sort of back to the future, isn't it? And it is surprising in the 21st century we would be revisitin...