J. D. Salinger is dead at 91. After achieving spectacular success with Catcher in the Rye and a handful of other brief novels and short stories in the 1950s, Salinger renounced his celebrity and became a recluse for the rest of his life. And yet, word
Fareed Zakaria suggests that President Obama’s problem is that he has been acting like a Prime Minister–the head of his party in a parliamentary system–rather than a President, the head of state: Over the past six months — which have correlated with his dramatic drop
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)
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