"Has anyone ever told you that your high-wattage passion for no-collar American food makes you television’s answer to Calvin Trillin, if Mr. Trillin bleached his hair, drove a Camaro and drank Boozy Creamsicles?"

"When you cruise around the country for your show 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,' rasping out slangy odes to the unfancy places ...

"A second Obama term could kill the Second Amendment."

Says James Taranto , inviting Obamans to make gun control a big campaign issue. The Supreme Court's recent cases finding an individual r...

Everything Mark Twain wanted to eat...

... when he arrived home in the United States of America after traveling around in France and Italy in 1870: Radishes. Baked apples, with cr...

The NYT goes after Clarence Thomas over "an unusual, and ethically sensitive, friendship."

It's a long article , and you have to comb through it to try to grasp what we're supposed to think Justice Thomas did wrong. I'd...

Pick a movie to design a meal around.

That was the challenge last night on "Top Chef," which this post won't spoil, but there are spoilers at here , where I read ab...

Madison and New York/young and old.

Last semester, as I drove my car to and from work every day, nearly every time, I listened to the album "Poses," by Rufus Wainwri...

Oyster Awards.

For hardest to open packages. The one that took the longest -- more than 15 minutes -- is American Idol Barbie.

How is Jayson Blair's girlfriend like Presidential candidate John Kerry? They both spontaneously launch into quoting "The Love Son...