"The ten most overrated things in the world [SLIDESHOW]."

Let me guess. Is one of the things  internet slideshows? Top 10 lists? Noted author and essayist Christopher Hitchens once said that the fou...

Why are we so hostile to non-natives?

"Giant cannibal shrimp more than a FOOT long invade waters off Gulf Coast." The black-and-white-striped shrimp can grow 13 inches ...

"Al the Shoesalesman Gets a Tax Cut."

Nicely done ad and website with easy to use calculator -- not that I believed the number I was given. ADDED: This post is red meat lobster...

On the Santa Monica pier.

The amusement park: Things you might not notice unless you go to the enlargement : pigeons on the roller coaster, toddler has a red squirt g...

Did you feel that 5.4 earthquake?

I was saying I'd like to experience an L.A. earthquake... nothing destructive, but something . So there was this big earthquake today . ...

But what about all that snow?

Flight alert just received via airport WiFi: NW 247 February 25 ON TIME departs DTW at 7:26 pm arrives MSN 7:41 pm Gate 4 Okay. I'm taki...

Why would the world's fattest man need surgery to lose weight?

This makes no sense at all. The man is so fat he's immobilized, which means someone has to be procuring the food for him. He weighs 550...

"Sopranos," "Big Love."

I don't much like the burden of watching two dramas back to back, but that's how HBO got us interested in "Big Love," and ...

David Foster Wallace.

I can't say I've read much of his fiction, but I love David Foster Wallace for his nonfiction essays. One of my favorite books is ...

The doomed lobster, Hermione.

Here she is, friends. She is doomed. We were just squealing and shooting photographs a la Annie Hall. And now I'm furiously writing this...

Day 1 of the Republican Convention.

(I'll put all my observations for tonight in this post, with numbered paragraphs to represent the updates.) 1. I love the grand video sc...

US News reports : On Dean's chartered campaign plane early Tuesday morning, there was a sense of relief to be moving on. As the plane...