A prolonged Halloween hangover is preventing me from commenting on the great issues of the day, but I did find this revisionist take on Brett Favre’s penchant for throwing disastrous interceptions pretty interesting.
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Burt Likko Fantasti*con! You're going to have another customer soon.
Mary Fantasti*con! How exciting! Congrats!
James K Saturday! I've started on Kingdoms of Amalur, I don't think I...
Jaybird Fantasti*con! Good luck, teacher!
Tod Kelly The Contraception Compromise This is a pretty fabulous question, Burt, that I ha...
Katherine Sunday! I have been wasting vast amount of time watching "I...
Will Truman Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 14 There is a remarkable lack of symmetry in his examp... Will Truman Clearing Out The Clippings, No. 16 I suck at doing what he says we do...
Kyle Cupp A Child, a Death, and a Memory Thank you all for the kind words. Burt Likko A Child, a Death, and a Memory What an awful experience for you and your wife. Wha...Borat, Art, and the Eye of the Beholder
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I am just listening with sadness…sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt, consult the classics [5:30 mark].
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Over on the Mindless Diversions site...
Our intrepid commenter A Teacher tells the story of how he published his NaNoWriMo book (and, of course, tells us how we can get a copy of it for ourselves). ( 0 comments)
Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 7 comments)
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