November 2004

I love this rollicking review of Tom Wolfe’s new novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. As background, he talks about Wolfe’s […]

Just realized that I’ve been writing this blog for 5 years — my first post was November 4, 1999, using

Is it just me, or is Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) seeming more and more like one of those unstoppable monster-movie

Michelle Goldberg’s longish piece in Salon is the most thoughtful reaction to the whole Red State-Blue State divide that I’ve

The onslaught of comment spam on my Movable Type blog finally made me scream uncle: I switched to WordPress this

State-by-state election returns make the U.S. look like a deeply divided country–red Republicans in the South and middle; blue Democrats

Indian farmers have discovered that spraying their fields with Coca-Cola may be as effective as–and lots cheaper than–spraying with pesticides.