TECHNICAL QUERY: Somehow, I hit some keys randomly (was trying to balance a book on the keyboard–reading while a website loaded–stupid stupid…), and now lots of the fonts on my screen are vaster than a right-wing conspiracy. I have maybe selected “high-contrast large font”?? But when I tried to undo that in the “display” menus, nothing happened. (I clicked on “normal font,” then rebooted. No change. Fonts still unnaturally large.) Any ideas? This is a mere annoyance, but I’d like... Read more

MORE ON “THE VIRTUE OF HATE“: Kesher Talk has a good round-up post, and links to this excellent discussion from the very cool-looking blog Baraita. Read more

VERY SWEET second item. Read more

DEAR_SALAM. A blog of letters to Salam Pax. Read more

RAVE ACT LAMENESS WATCH. Read more

“On the second floor [of the Army Museum in Beijing], we entered a room filled with bronze busts. Here were the heroes of the Chinese revolution, from Chairman Mao to President Jiang Zemin. The “Ten Marshals”… were there. So were Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and General Zhu De. As a fraternal gesture, the North Korean “Great Leader” Kim Il Sung was smiling benevolently from his pedestal. And there, perhaps as a salute to another authoritarian Chinese leader, was a scowling... Read more

DOLLARS AND DISSENTS. My Jewish World Review column, on consumerism, and stuff. Read more

MARYLINKS: Vast trove. Found ’em in my referrer logs. Read more

OLD OLIGARCH + HOMELAND HOOD = LIFE SAVED. Yikes! Read more

STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR: Ah, disturbing search requests… (click at own risk, by the way.) Here are some of the search-engine queries that have brought people to this fine weblog in the preceding months. Roughly in order of my preference, from least funny to funniest (not all of these were Google searches, but I can’t remember where they all came from, so I’ll just give you the Google links): sexy comics ferocious english alien hallowing e-cards keep... Read more