Rhyme Of The Day

This is a headline from months ago, but I love it: TV Ads May Be More Effective If We Pay Less Attention The idea is that when you pay atten...

The Dutch have arrested a couple of Yemenis on charges of preparing a terrorist attack. In major weirdness, which is hard to make sense of,...

Last year I wrote a 10-minute play for Theatre of Women 4. It was great fun, and my 10-minute play is actually scheduled to be produced agai...

I'm sick of flaky DSL. I'm switching to cable as soon as I'm able.

Well, this is annoying. Germany is coming out of the recession better than we are. ...the U.S. economy is scuffling along. The German econom...

The Economist ran a think piece about a hybrid called liberaltarianism . I'm skeptical about the hybrid, but I am in total agreement wit...

It's an Enright in the news, no relative of mine, but rather than reflecting goodness to the name, he's heaping it with shame, drunk...

Here's a strange headline: Regardless of numbers, it feels like a recession More bad housing, hiring data show an economy that may be fa...

A hero gets the bill: The family of a 17-year-old Zion teen credited with saving a drowning boy on Monday in Kenosha, Wis., say the good dee...

I thought L.A. traffic was bad, but outside of Beijing there was a 9 day 62 mile traffic jam , mostly trucks. The problem: roadwork. The nee...

P.J. O'Rourke, our intrepid journalist humorist, spends 72 hours in Afghanistan and returns as an expert. He interviewed someone who men...

There was a young man from Peru, who wrote a 4-line haiku. His friends said it stunk, but he said "I thunk it the generous thing to do....

At about noon a friendly, competent guy from the power company showed up, and quickly fixed our power problem. One of the connections had go...

I came home yesterday to a partial electric outage here. It's still like that. The problem is outside the house - with the connection to...

Prof. Ann Althouse remembers her law school days: I remember suggesting to one of the most prominent feminist lawprofs that I thought femini...

Yes, the joys continue. Part of our electric is off. Even though the circuit breakers seem okay. Calls have been made. I think we've los...

We had a very spirited discussion at our book study group tonight. We were talking about Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism ...

  Bags, bags, bags, flowing smoothly without snags, up the bustling belt they slide all together for a ride in the belly of the plane adding...

We ate tonight at Big Daddy's Barbecue in Acton, Maine. They sell barbecue, and clams, and lobsters too. They have an "all you can...

Maine is the state with the claim to fame of having a single-syllable name. New York could be one-syllable too, if it would only drop the ...