Food is not safe as long as you pick it up within five seconds of its hitting the floor. From snopes.com: Drop a cookie onto a clean floor, and you could eat it with impunity. Drop it onto a contaminated…
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Henthoff’s 9,273rd defense of the First Amendment
Read the latest and ask yourself why almost half of the public thinks we have too much freedom. Then ponder how we get it into their heads that freedom of the press matters to people who don’t own one.
Walter Mears writes the book on campaigns
From a review in CJR. It is a puckish survey of the blunders and idiocies political flesh is heir to, and a lament that today’s stage-managed campaigns make it so hard to put gaffes in context. As old cultural taboos…
Mr. Winkie meets Ms. Mockingbird
Here’s her side of what happened.
Dang, my true identity is exposed
The average blogger is a teen-age girl who updates her friends and classmates on her life, with words and spellings not quite as informal as instant messaging, Perseus said. Updates are done twice a month, Perseus said.
Sunday diversions
Quinn on tit-a-mania. Autumn on funny stuff they said at work last week. Jay Rosen reports from blogger.con. Bill on the proper comeback to “bless you.”
Nobel Prize for Literature
… to J.M. Coetzee.
Nicole’s been busy
So check out her links if you haven’t already.
You know you’ve made it when …
An Oscar-nominated star plays your spouse in the movie.
The Plimpton charm
From the New York Observer He triumphed uniquely in this because his career was founded on the expectation that he was not in the end going to win. He did hard work and made it look easy. He had the…