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When is student writing a warning sign? This question is debated singlehandedly by Chris M. Anson of North Carolina State University in Ac...

Amid the tablid bonanza that is the faked death of John Darwin, the discovery of his secret passage through a wardrobe is leading headline w...

At noon every Tuesday during the semester, at the clock tower in the middle of the Frostburg State University campus, names, ages and hometo...

Since graduate school I've been fascinated by fiction in non-fictional formats. Here's one I haven't seen before, a short stor...

In the grand tradition of the Richard III vindicators, the learned Sherlockians and Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton universalists comes...

Thanks to David Lowe for passing along this last minute Christmas-gift idea.

The current Rapture Index is set at 158, meaning "Heavy prophetic activity." Its author explains: The Rapture Index is by no mea...

That Iran stopped its nuclear-weapons work in 2003, says Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert , is a very bad sign: They had the program. They...

Los Angeles Times columnist Ed Park lists Eclipse One atop his short list of "Favorite SciFi Books of 2007," but discusses only...

I read in the Cumberland Times-News that our next-door neighbor Hannah Llewellyn, who takes care of our cats when we're away, is earnin...

I enjoy Amy Dickinson's Chicago Tribune advice column "Ask Amy," syndicated in our local paper. Her Dec. 8 column has the p...

Today I received a post card from one of my several alma maters, the University of South Carolina, telling me the student newspaper, The Dai...

The Cumberland Times-News runs some of the longest headlines I've ever seen. Here's a doozy from the Dec. 3 paper. If you make it...

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...