Beluthahatchie

I'm unusual among Marylanders in that I am not running for the U.S. Senate this year. According to the sample primary ballots in today...

In a recent interview with the Florida Baptist Witness ("Publishing Good News since 1884"), U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, R-Fla., ...

Sydney and I had a wonderful time Sunday afternoon tramping around Cranesville Swamp in neighboring Garrett County, in far western Maryland...

In reply to Mr. Cavin's comment below, I'll happily shake on Snakes on a Plane being a flop but not a bomb , a distinction I admi...

Mr. Cavin writes: Based on information I read at The New York Times, I was under the impression that Snakes on a Plane was reaping the nor...

Two guys in an athletic facility: "Do you get Martin Luther King Day off?" "That ain't a real holiday. Now, if we had a...

Before the movie Snakes on a Plane opened, my hero F. Brett Cox wondered aloud: It'll be interesting to see how the movie does after al...

I laughed loudly at this Arthur D. Hlavaty post , and was only mildly ashamed. Christopher Rowe , meanwhile, is right in remembering that in...

Trent Hergenrader writes, in part: This is almost on-topic, but German Chocolate Cake gets its name from the type of chocolate (German...

I was taken aback by Roald Dahl’s memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood , but I suppose I shouldn’t have been; this is the author of Switch Bitch ,...

Somewhere upstream, I declared that the G in "german measles" ought to be lowercased, since it means german as in "germane,...

Saturday a week ago, while reading Roald Dahl’s memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood , I was pleased to stumble across a British phrase new to me:...

We're happy that our new neighborhood has an abundance of small wildlife: groundhogs, chipmunks, squirrels and, especially, rabbits. On...

I just finished reading Marion Elizabeth Rodgers' terrific biography Mencken: The American Iconoclast (Oxford University Press, 2005). ...

Sydney and I plan to be at Capclave , Oct. 20-22 in Silver Spring, Md. The author guest of honor is Kim Stanley Robinson, and others schedul...

In reply to my confession that Sydney and I own a Dimension Collector's Series DVD of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back , my hero Brett Cox...

On the topic of the Duncans' visit to the Carter Fold in Virginia, Andy Wolverton writes: I've always thought that you could write...

My hero Barry Johnson writes: Here's an interesting bit of fact that I just learned myself last week, over a dinner conversation with a...

This should have been bigger news: French fries and French toast are back on the menu in the cafeterias of Capitol Hill, three years after...

On Saturday, Sydney and I rode with her family to the Carter Family Memorial Festival at the Carter Fold in Hiltons, Va. The Carter Fold is...