Ho, ho, ho! (And be grateful you don’t live next to these houses.)
E.J. Graff
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Happy Hanukkah to All, and To All A Good Night
Did someone say potatoes deep-frying in grease?
Posted inAmerica and the World
Vaclav Havel on Kim Jong-Il
Via @beingbrina, here is the Velvet Revolutionary’s comment on Dear Leader, in the Globe and Mail, 2004.
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Good vs. Evil
Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-Il were a study in contrasts—one a leader who inspired greatness, the other a dictator who instilled fear.
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Friday Miscellany
A conservative mayor unintentionally outs himself, obesity drops among NYC schoolchildren, and every U.S. writer says goodbye to Christopher Hitchens.
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Your Brain Is Racist
Could race conceivably influence presidential pardons? Surely not!
Posted inEducation in America
Identical Twins: One Boy, One Girl
Bathrooms are the ground zero of transgender battles, the equivalent of shared showers in the military debates.
