“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we’d have problems with caterpillars. It's a fiction ( Read more... )

I was sort of depressed last night after Romney's cheerful and bizarre speech in Illinois in which he said all kinds of outrageous things about Obama (he would have stopped the Wright Brothers? really?) and made fun of him for going to Law School. Yeah, that Law School-Harvard-the same one Mitt attended when he got a Law Degree.

But today has sooooo ( Read more... )

All day people have been asking "What is Pottermore?" Is it an online gaming community? Is it a social network? All we know is that JKR updated her Official Site (click the eraser, then on the next page click the time-turner, then the door will suddenly have the "Do Not Distub" sign which strangely signals that something is coming soon). There are ( Read more... )

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death ( Read more... )

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"I didn't realize that in Hollywood all you have to do is say you'll show up and you get it," she said. "If I'd known that, I'd have said that I was appearing at the Oscars a long time ago."
~ Sandra Bullock, accepting her "Razzy" Worst Actress Award for "All About Steve," quoted on Moviefone Blog

"And next I get to headline. I'll be the speaker at ( Read more... )