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Princess Alice, the aunt of Queen Elizabeth II has died at the age of 102. As one blogger says, the event occasions "utter indifferen...

Nick's essay on politicians' lies brings to mind a conversation with my brother and an op ed piece I saw recently in the Washington...

Over at Gobbergo , Nick's post on lies and damned lies is a good one. (See I'm afraid I can't help it / I'm afraid I can .)...

One for Nick Tim Bray is one of the creators of the xml internet language and a leading proponent of open-sources software. Tim has lots...

We all liked Disney's Darby O'Gill , called "the definitive Leprechaun movie" by one source (from the 1903 novel by Her...

A while back it was poetry week in Great Britain but you'd hardly know it. I couldn't find one newspaper writeup, only an indirect ...

I've been interested in The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words for quite a while now. This is the title of an essay by Sigmund Freud ...

Christopher Hitchens is a guest author on a history weblog -- the Liberty & Power: Group Blog. He's a controversialist to the core....

I've grown interested in pre-history since reading a book about "Big History." About this, see The Case for "Big History...

One of the family's favorite films is " Spaced Invaders ". The title of the piece quoted below has nothing to do with the fil...

October 4, 2004|6:53 PM Arts&Entertainment 2004 THE NEW YORK OBSERVER, L.P. Call Me Will, Forsooth: The Bard as Ordinary Guy ...

I loved reading Walt Kelly’s comics and particularly recall bringing my Pogo books to Maine for summer reading. I think the grownups around...

Yesterday I visited Dr. Wyre, the dermatologist at our HMO, He’s always fun, even when he inflicts sharp (but brief) pain as he did yesterd...

Not feeling well, I drove to work Friday. This almost never happens. Normally, either I'm healthy enough to bike, or too sick to work ...

Parents Weekend at Earlham. We attended hardly any official functions. The only one I can recall, thinking back at the moment, is the ...

The Bush record, in cartoon form

The Maine music box: a pilot project to create a digital music library Marilyn Lutz The Authors Marilyn Lutz, Director for Library In...

Writing in the margins John Keats wrote in the margins of books he borrowed and owned. He passed them to his friends and they did the sa...

I changed and re-named this post; that's why it's showing up as a new entry, though it's actually not. As a VISTA Volunteer i...

The Crooked Timber weblog has a piece of satire on the Cat Stevens deportation incident. It claims that the historian Eric Hobsbawm has be...