"And as it turned out, the 18-year-old singer wasn't even in the sports car." This seems to be an occasion for wheeling out th...
I was just asking for some ideas for a conversation about end-of-the-year things, and now I've had the conversation, which I'll be ...
When those "Rocky Horror" events leave you feeling empty and questioning your very existence, it's time to move on to the Andr...
Writing about childhood fears (post-Newtown), she reveals : One night when the moon was bright and the wind was moving the trees, I looked f...
"It fosters a society of atomistic individuals, isolated before power — and one another — and in the aftermath of shootings such as at ...
"Like so many of you, we are saddened, but struggling to make sense of what has transpired."
She writes about herself in the second person saying things like: You have read Adorno. You are able to think critically about your desire ...
Rants Jeffrey in my "time to stop talking about the election and have our lives be about love and beauty " post. It takes a day ...
Said Amartel in the comments to yesterday's post , which was titled with a quote from a Chelsea Clinton tweet: "Marc, Soren and I a...
".... they must tell us something about the nature of a fetus that makes the state’s interest in protecting it more compelling than its...
"A theodicy... is an attempt to resolve the evidential problem of evil by reconciling the traditional divine characteristics of omniben...
Now, there's the question I wish Bob Schieffer had asked at last night's debate, but, failing that we have Jim Holt’s "Why Does...
Ugh: really torn about which presidential ticket to vote for based on body fat percentage. — Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) August 21,...
Something I just found myself saying (in the context of why I've only blogged about abortion and not written the book I almost have in m...
From a list of 35 aphorisms about lying. But none of the aphorisms on the list is the aphorism I am looking for. You know the feeling that t...
Wrote Fania Pascal, back in the 1930: I croaked: “I feel just like a dog that has been run over.” He was disgusted: “You don’t know what a d...
Juan Williams asks Rep. Chris Van Hollen , who is appearing as a surrogate for the Obama campaign and who trots out the predictable denial: ...
A mere accident, purportedly. And it only affected Facebookians who failed to identify with a party or ideology that had its own Facebook p...
It was good enough for FDR, and it's what the Washington Post is pushing in anticipation of the Obamacare decision. Jonathan Turley writ...
The NYT calls that "an awkward manifesto" but conspicuously admires the project of perfecting the small, virtuous, upscale way of ...
