The remains of the astronauts of the Shuttle Columbia have been identified and are being returned to their families. God rest them. It’s morbid to contemplate, but you can’t help wondering, what does remain after disaster like that?

Dude, you’re gettin’ a joint. The kid who does the annoying Dell Computer commercials got picked up in New York by police for buying marijuana.

From the latest New Republic: On “Meet the Press” in January, Tim Russert reminded the freshly reinvented presidential candidate of four episodes in his past: His 1987 conviction for defaming a man he accused of raping Tawana Brawley; his 1993 conviction for tax evasion; his 1995 incitement against a Jewish store owner in Harlem, which… Continue reading

Is George Clooney turning into a jerk?

Web developer Kate Gardner tells me what she was up to during the Blizzard: “I remember that I spent the days in ’78 constructing two very elaborate, highly realistic, quite large snow lions to guard the driveway of the apartment I lived in at the time (Newton Highlands). A process not really too dissimilar to… Continue reading