Short Schrift

For once, it's not me asking those questions, but someone else. Here's an interesting thread on laurafedora : my friend and fellow P...

I have a love/hate/hate, hate!, hate!! relationship with daytime television. I've only seen Tyra Banks's talk show once, but this AP...

I don't get cable news, so when it comes to TV, I have to choose between local, network, and what they show on PBS, which includes a hea...

Until I started this blog, I had done virtually no work with HTML whatsoever. Since then, I've mostly just tweaked and made slight adjus...

Courtesy of Leonard Ford -- A year and a half ago, The Onion published a hilarious piece about a hypothetical five-bladed Gillette razor . N...

Watching the Roberts confirmation hearings on television, and watching the improbable political spin machine of senators and now, expert wit...

Whew! I need to wake up at 6 AM more often. I've already read the Times and Post, most of my favorite blogs, and just moved on to Arts a...

I was called to jury duty on Tuesday. There's nothing like waking up at 7:00 AM the day after Labor Day and going someplace to be ordere...

It may not be unusual that my understanding and experience of the hurricane's devastation in New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, and the Missis...

Funny Doonesbury today -- funnier still if you're a Philadelphian.