McDonald's claims its people were respectfu l but concerned that he was secretly filming customers and invading their privacy (under Fre...
Oh, my! It does!!! (Via Metafilter .)
... it's not all bad.
Cheating and enraging customers so they denounce you on the web... as a business model , thanks to Google. Online chatter about DecorMyEyes,...
Great! I've always loved Robert Downey Jr. and Mr. Peanut: But why is the nutcracker named "Richard"? Background on Mr. Pean...
"Police said a helicopter was called to chase the culprit, who jumped into the Serpentine lake in London. The 27-year-old has since bee...
... "softened"? By his new wife? I find it hard to believe. But if he gets a new haircut and new glasses, then I might believe.
Is that the explanation? A mystery!
I thought that 2009 was the last New Year's when you could wear those glasses with "00" over the eyes, but I was corrected . Y...
Reading Tom Wolfe's "I Am Charlotte Simmons," I was amused to run across this description of a man wearing shorts. (At page 9...
Read Dahlia Lithwick's write-up of yesterday's death penalty case, Kansas v. Marsh , in which the court upholds a state law that re...
Here 's the report in her newspaper, The Washington Post. The category is Criticism. Criticize all you want, but she's my favorite b...
Tales of interviewing for a job in Gender Studies, from the Chronicle of Higher Education (via Poliblogger ): My faculty guide led me into a...
It's Day 6 of this 35 day project . ( The set thus far. ) I'm in the Van Gogh Museum, having a museum experience:
Nice results show tonight on "American Idol." We saw the original audition of each of the final four, which was quite charming. Vo...
The Columnist Manifesto has decided that new reports that Bush volunteered to go to Vietnam do not require that he reconsider his take on B...
By popular request, here's a look back into Madison, especially for all you readers who come here for a window into your past. What does...
Time has a little piece on Rather-related blogging this week, complete with a picture of the Powerline guys, dressed up with matching ties...
Edmund Morris spins a theory in this week's New Yorker about how Ronald Reagan came to think the way he did. It all started with nearsi...
The Sound of Two Eyes Not Blinking. (This is from Salon Premium , so you'll have to click through an ad.) [A]lthough [General Wesley] C...
