The new volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English is out, and here are some good words that need to be adopted by the rest of the country (as chosen by Kevin Lamarque at Reuters): 1. whoopensocker (n.), Wisconsin You know when something’s wonderfully
Michael Gerson says that there are currently two kinds of conservatives: On one side there are Rejectionist Conservatives, who come in a variety of forms. There are libertarians who view federal taxation, except to fund a few night-watchman roles, as theft. There are tea party
The BCS conferences have reportedly agreed to devise a four-team playoff for the college football championship: College football is on the verge of finally having a playoff, its own version of the final four. For the first time, all the power brokers who run the
No sooner had I trumpeted the return of this blog than the whole thing went down again. We were online for about an hour. Now we seem to be back. I’ll put up some posts and we can pretend this blog week never happened. (If
Finally! Long time no see. This blog went down on May 1 and just came up again the night of May 3. According to our hosting people, the server went down and then they had trouble moving everything over to a new one. I don’t
Philosopher Michael Marder, with a platform in the New York Times, takes the next step, after summarizing some research as to how peas “communicate” their condition to other peas: The research findings of the team at the Blaustein Institute form yet another building block in
More from that brilliant column by Peggy Noonan, America’s Crisis of Character: There is the General Services Administration scandal. An agency devoted to efficiency is outed as an agency of mindless bread-and-circuses indulgence. They had a four-day regional conference in Las Vegas, with clowns and
We had a post on the report that Pepsi was using a flavor enhancement test that made use of embryonic cells from an aborted fetus. (NOT that they used that ingredient in their products!) In the discussion that ensued, it turned out that although the
Let me propose this thesis, drawing on the recent post about what Bruce Springsteen said about Hank Williams: All distinctly Christian art must be, in some sense, about the agonizing struggle between sin and grace. Mere moral lessons, while perhaps commendable, are not enough to
Chen Guangcheng is a Chinese lawyer who has been battling China’s forced abortion policy. For his efforts, he has been in and out of prison since 2005. After his last release in 2010, Mr. Chen has been under house arrest even though he has not
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