Balancing Frogs

This weekend I watched a Chinese-style Taiwanese-language opera outdoors on Dihua St. in Taipei. The opera was directly inspired by the Nic...

A fascinating nugget of wisdom from a Washington Post online chat about Obama rumors : Cleveland, Tenn.: My Uncle Glenn, who raised me and w...

I saw The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian on Sunday. I was a completely virgin viewer. Not only have I never seen the first Narnia ...

Political bloggers are all abuzz over what Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee member Fred Hobbs (note party affiliation) has to ...

Wherever blog comment threads turn to politics, the general intelligence level takes a nosedive. I'm okay with that - I made my peace w...

Zompist refuses to predict the Presidential race . I think the November election is still wide open. Well, I'm a lot stupider than him, ...

I just read James Hynes' Kings of Infinite Space . An office satire. With undead creatures. And sex. (Not in the same scenes.) My of...

Johann Hari experiments with this drug called Provigil : A week later, the little white pills arrived in the post. I sat down and took one ...

Gene Weingarten's weekly chat at the Washington Post has brought us another wonderful pre-chat poll: Which statement by a presidential ...

Over at Making Light, a discussion is going on regarding whether a certain commenter at BoingBoing.net is a troll or not. Ah, Trollology. ...

I like to think I'm pretty tolerant and libertarian when it comes to social issues. (This has got nothing to do with political liberta...

The Featured Article blurb on the front page of Wikipedia today, April 1, 2008: Ima Hogg was an enterprising circus emcee who brought cultu...