Sally Jenkins gets inside the head of a place kicker–his premonitions, his inner voice, his getting iced, and the winning kick that takes his team to the Super Bowl. It was 2:15 a.m. and [Garrett] Hartley couldn’t sleep, because the Inner Voice kept shrieking at
This has always been a week-day blog, but Stewart, who has been redesigning the site, tells me that the days of the week with the biggest blog readership, for some reason, are Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. He says I really need to post something on
The U.S. Postal Service wants to put out a stamp commemorating Mother Teresa, who was made an honorary U.S. citizen by President Clinton, honoring her Nobel Peace Prize and her work with the world’s poor and dying. The Freedom from Religion Foundation, an atheist organization,
I missed the State of the Union address last night. Listening to it every year is a ritual I try to subject myself to. Somebody please report. Did it contain any eloquence, any electric phrases that will go down in history? Any surprising new policies?
Apple’s new tablet computer was unveiled yesterday. It seems to really be a sort of super-Kindle, something that can download books and newspapers, as well as lots of other iPhone-like applications. After months of hype and rumour-mongering that only seemed to get more intense the
Stewart keeps dragging me into the 21st century, all the way from my natural home in the 17th, so I am now on Twitter. He has set it up so that links to posts on this blog will get twittered, or tweeted, and thus promulgated
A newly discovered work by Lucas Cranach will be auctioned off today at Christie’s in New York. It’s entitled “Bacchus at the Wine Vat.” Here is the description: A gloriously eccentric work by Cranach (1472-1553), “Bacchus at the Wine Vat,” 1530 (pictured at left; estimate:
CBS has agreed to air an Superbowl ad from Focus on the Family in which quarterback Tim Tebow’s mother talks about how she was advised to abort him. Pro-abortionists have been trying to pressure the network to not show the ad: CBS Tuesday (Jan. 26)
In tonight’s State of the Union address, the president will propose a three-year spending freeze in much, though not all, of the federal budget as a way to address the surging deficit: President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic
“Avatar” passed another James Cameron movie, “Titanic,” as the top-grossing movie of all time, pulling in as of Sunday $1.292 billion worldwide. The movie about the ship earned $1.242 billion. See this report. In my review of the movie, I found it visually spectacular, but
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