I caught the last half of the 2003 PBS documentary “None Without Sin” last night. It’s a fairly straightforward tale of the relationship between Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller and how it collapsed under the weight of Kazan’s naming of names to the House Un-American Activities Committee and Miller’s refusal to do so. It seems …
GaimanSignature Originally uploaded by Linkmeister. I was early on in reading this, and I needed to go back to the list of Dramatis personae. I happened to see the frontispiece. It reads: To Aiea Library — Have a nice Doomsday — Neil Gaiman I have no way of verifying the signature, but I have no …
From US News & World Report: He loves to cuss, gets a jolly when a mountain biker wipes out trying to keep up with him, and now we’re learning that the first frat boy loves flatulence jokes. A top insider let that slip when explaining why President Bush is paranoid around women, always worried about …
PratchettBks Originally uploaded by Linkmeister. Back here I mentioned that I had put 19 books by Terry Pratchett on hold from my local library. I kinda thought they’d arrive in dribs and drabs. Wrong, dog breath.
Suddenly it appears that all the line breaks between paragraphs on my posts have disappeared, at least in my versions of Firefox and IE. Does anyone see the same thing? I ran an Ad-Aware scan, which I hadn’t done in a while; that’s the only thing I can think of that I’ve done differently today. …
Oh dear, oh dear. The Yankees (may their souls rot in hell) swept a five-game series from the Red Sox over the weekend. I’m not particularly a Red Sox fan, now that they’ve eliminated the curse of the Bambino, but I can empathize with their fans. In my case, if the Giants had done the …
The debate is over: By any definition, Iraq is in a state of civil war. Indeed, the only thing standing between Iraq and a descent into total Bosnia-like devastation is 135,000 U.S. troops — and even they are merely slowing the fall. The internecine conflict could easily spiral into one that threatens not only Iraq …
Last year it was Ewa Beach winning the Little League World Series. Today Hilo won the Cal Ripken 12-and-under World Championship game, defeating Mexico 5-2. It’s gotta be the vog. Congratulations to the kids!
The other day we heard this from Bush: “Hezbollah started the crisis, and Hezbollah suffered a defeat in this crisis.” The president spoke at the State Department after conferring with his national security team, first at the Pentagon and then at the State Department. He was flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of …
If there were colleges fielding Qidditch teams, this memo would undoubtedly have surfaced in the Daily Prophet. Its source would be a competing university which would have passed it along to Rita Skeeter. RE: Harry Potter campus visit IMPORTANCE: High Hey, all, It’s 24 hours until the big visit, and I hope by now everyone …