Kitty Carlisle. Rest in Peace. Ann Althouse gives a great eulogy. I remember To Tell the Truth–but especially her singing in Night at the Opera. A Class Act.
Victor Davis Hanson, on the vengeance of the God Nemesis: At the heart of both the Imus and Duke scandals is arrogance. Overweening conceit inevitably led bigheads like Imus, Nifong, Sharpton, Jackson and many at Duke University to go one step too far – and thus at last earn their just deserts.
Congrats to fellow Podiobooks novelist Scott Sigler as he hits the big time, according to this week’s Publisher’s Lunch newsletter: Successful podcasting horror author Scott Sigler’s INFESTED, about an everyman’s bloody battle against a mysterious parasite that hijacks his body and pushes his thoughts into a psychotic rage, the sequel CONTAGIOUS, in which those murder-inducing… Continue reading
Jason Rosenhouse has an interesting post in the aftermath of the school massacre: The fundamentalists over at AiG are fools, but it is important to remember that more mainstream Christianity has no better answer than they for the problem of evil. The ability of people to deny the obvious is simply not to be believed.… Continue reading
Oh, boy. How not to spread the new Gospel of Atheism.