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I'm a year late, but I just discovered Flumesday.com's list of the Top 10 Dirtiest Names in Sports : 10. De'Cody Fagg 9. Homer B...

I marvel, pardon the pun, that I'm now friends with one of the writers of the comic books I avidly read as a kid, in the mid-'70s. ...

I'm always pleased when I encounter a real-life rivalry that reminds me of the one in Monty Python's Life of Brian between the Jude...

Speaking of Mel Brooks , Gregory Frost passes along this lovely news item from The Onion . My favorite parts are the upcoming 5K Schlep f...

F. Brett Cox reports that on this week's episode of Numb3rs , an artist at a comics convention surveyed the scene and said, "These ...

At Crooked Timber , John Holbo hails my story "Senator Bilbo." Thanks to Patrick Nielsen Hayden for pointing this out to me and...

In response to my suggestion that the Lee Van Cleef scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly may be the only sinister bean-eating scene in m...

Without a doubt, the most sinister bean-eating scene in movie history (indeed, perhaps the only sinister bean-eating scene in movie history...

This upstream comment from Richard Parks is worth highlighting: Tom Lehrer once said that he knew that "Satire was dead when they gave...

Isabel "Oz" Whiston writes: Good photos. ... Proves to Sydney you were there and not off gallivanting about the countryside, not t...

Regarding the Vietnam Veterans Memorial , my Clarion 2004 student Phil "Dr. Phil" Kaldon writes: The first time I met the wall, i...

I second Jason Erik Lundberg's recommendation of Quin's Shanghai Circus , the astounding 1974 first novel by the late Edward Whitte...

Regarding the photo that may or may not depict Lincoln at Gettysburg , Mark Wingenfeld writes: Of course we know that Lincoln was at Gettys...

Among its other charms, this fine article on Flying Spaghetti Monster scholarship tells me about a book I'd very much like to read: Aut...

Looking for Lincoln in this crowd shot taken at the Gettysburg cemetery dedication on Nov. 19, 1863 -- the venue, of course, of the preside...

This photo from the Veterans Day edition of the Cumberland Times-News shows three new flagpoles in front of a Lutheran church. The tallest...

"Now I know why they gave up on the march from Bataan. It's very difficult." That's Michael Busch , speaker of the Maryla...

"I spoke to President Musharraf right before I came over here to visit with President Sarkozy. And my message was that we believe stron...

I never saw an "In It Not Of It" T-shirt before I saw this photo in the Nov. 11 Cumberland Times-News . Now I learn, thanks to Go...

Reading about Demi Moore's birthday (Nov. 11), I was startled to learn that she was born in Roswell, N.M. It's so easy to forget, ...