I’m not trying to pick on Annie Lennox. I think Lennox is great. Great voice, great entertainer, and I must say she looks sensational for her age—or any age. But Lennox touched on a long-held pet peeve of mine when … Continue reading →
…this is the best explanation of the phenomenon I’ve seen. Originally, I was among the 70% of the population who see it as white-and-gold. But after reading the article, I was able to flip back and forth between seeing it … Continue reading →
How about you? Yes, they do away with the need to always have gobs of change on hand. Big deal. What they offer in that particular convenience they more than take away in the many other annoyances they provide. How … Continue reading →
[NOTE: More on this topic here.] I don’t think he loves it in any conventional sense. You don’t want to “fundamentally transform” something you love. Or do you? For example, a family can get together in an intervention to try … Continue reading →
Ann Althouse highlights what is apparently a highly-debated question on the Web: “Is a doughnut a dessert?” The person Althouse quotes has answered this pressing (dare I say weighty?) question this way: Zach’s position: a doughnut is always and inherently … Continue reading →
Bad. Particularly in Boston and environs. It’s not just the totals but the timing: If you’re wondering what the big deal is about snow in Boston, this is it: 78.5 inches of snow has fallen in Beantown this winter, which … Continue reading →
Yesterday I got a new cell phone, something I’d been meaning to do for months. My old one had essentially died. The battery was losing power at an alarming clip, but that wasn’t even the biggest problem. The thing that … Continue reading →
I gave a modest amount of money to a few charities at Christmastime this year, as I sometimes do. I got the next solicitations from them in the mail around the first week of January, and several have sent me … Continue reading →
Here’s an article on the laborious and idiosyncratic complexity of the relationship between pointe shoes and the ballet dancer. The shoes are hand-made (and for professional ballet dancers, custom-made) but they are not worn as is. There is a lengthy … Continue reading →
I don’t ordinarily write about football, except for the obligatory open thread for the Superbowl—and I don’t always even do that. So this may be the lengthiest football thread I’ll ever write. I’m not a football fan, although I know … Continue reading →
So, Andrew Sullivan has finally bit the blogging dust and quit. You might say, “Who cares?” I don’t, particularly; it’s been a long, long time since I’ve been a reader of his. Sullivan went off the deep end prior to … Continue reading →
It is ironic that the success of modern vaccination programs against ancient scourges such as measles has been part of the reason parents today are so ignorant about what these diseases can do. A recent outbreak in California has demonstrated … Continue reading →