Eddie Adcock plays the banjo while undergoing brain surgery.

A perfectly sensible thing to do: "During the brain-implantation stage of the surgery, he was kept conscious in order to be able to pl...

"There are really only two ways to interpret the Constitution -- try to discern as best we can what the framers intended or make it up."

Says Justice Clarence Thomas. Of course, I don't believe that. Do you? Really? Does Thomas? Really? He says this: As important as our ...

"The worst bitch in the world" is dead.

He called himself that -- Mr. Blackwell .

"Politics in a democracy are always 'vulgar' — since democracy is rule by the 'vulgus,' the common people, the crowd."

Writes William Kristol , rankling at Peggy Noonan's "In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgariza...

"Not only did you murder your victim by cutting his throat and stabbing him but you cut him up, cooked him and ate part of him."

Said the judge , sentencing Anthony Morley to a minimum of 30 years in prison. What do you have to do in Britain to get a life sentence?

"Obambulate."

Wordsmith presents the first in a series of "five words that appear to have been coined after this year's presidential candidates....

How did Sarah Palin get picked for VP?

In The New Yorker, Jane Mayer offers an account of what happened, beginning in blogdom: In February, 2007, Adam Brickley..., a self-describe...