May
24
1001 books
May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Another aggravating list has been created for us to debate, re: this interesting article in the New York Times.
The article references this list, which suppose is roughly the correct 1001 books, despite the last date of update being two years ago. I mistakenly started counting and it took me awhile, because I had to fact-check […]
Mar
11
Memoir versus novel
March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment
Yet again we have a [if you ask me, spectacularly trashy] story about a woman who sold her book to a publishing house claiming that it was a memoir, and they discovered that in fact it was a complete fake after only a few reviews went out.
“I thought it was my opportunity to put a […]
Feb
3
Softie
February 3, 2008 | 2 Comments
This actually may be one of the cutest things I have ever seen.
Nov
13
Sloppy mess
November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Judith Regan couldn’t just disappear quietly after that saga of hiring OJ Simpson to write about how he could have killed his ex-wife. Now this story.
The part that strikes me as ugliest is about having an affair with a potential homeland security secretary in “apartment near Ground Zero that had been donated as a respite […]
May
30
Dumbass, 1. Center for Disease Control, 0.
May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I love this story about the Atlanta man with a rare and intractable form of tuberculosis who went on a jaunt to Europe (for his wedding and honeymoon, which involved stops in France, Greece, and Italy). When the CDC contacts him to tell him he’s carrying this illness, and instructs him to report to Italian […]
Apr
19
It’s my own fault for reading MSNBC message boards about the Virginia Tech shooting. The comment above came from one brilliant author who mentioned that gun ownership shouldn’t be more controlled because most owners are law-abiding and tax-paying.
“I really could care less what other countries do because I am quite happy here and intend to […]
Apr
16
“Largest single act of gun violence in American history”
April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Not to be picky, but 23,000 Americans died in gun violence at the Battle of Antietam.
Perhaps they mean “largest act of non-war violence in American history”? Or “largest act of non-British-on-American violence in American history”? Or, “largest act of us killing each other that didn’t involve burning down a religious kook’s compound”?
I find the specificity […]
