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Bill Maher was on The View today talking about his upcoming theatrical release of Religulous this Friday--I already have a date with Mr. U for dinner and this movie if it's playing in town--and they of course asked Bill about his impression of Sarah Palin. His reaction is what you would… Read full post »

"Even as pixeling a written text onto an electronic screen radically destabilizes and volatizlizes it, so painting on an electronic screen launches the image into an existence forever in potential. --Richard Landow, The Electronic Word, 1993.

Richard Landow was writing about literary study as being sh… Read full post »

1. That opening with the five reality hosts standing up there with nothing to say but, "We've got nothing to say," was awful. Terrible. In fact, the whole show dragged tonight, the timing one or two beats awry (I was going to say "off" but thought better of it). I know… Read full post »

I was looking at my post from yesterday and seven comments are now missing from the post. I did not (and won't) delete comments. Has anyone else experienced this and do the comments come back to life? I just noticed that Dave just commented on the post, yet it's not there.… Read full post »

Yesterday's Oprah featured a stunningly thin and fit Gwenyth Paltrow, who had recently lost twenty pounds and yet eschews dieting of any kind, claiming that even thinking about dieting causes her to gain five pounds.

But after a bit of prodding and (conveniently) a packaged video piece, it was… Read full post »

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Interviewer: What is your vision?
Answer: Less taxes and more war.
Interviewer: Where should be bomb next?
Answer: Iran, baby!

But this story doesn't end with the obnoxious  interview.

No, indeed. The interviewee, Denver attorney and Republican delegate Gabriel Nathan Schwar… Read full post »

When we got home Monday from our 2000-mile round trip to Galesburg Illinois and back, I noticed our food and refrigerator were only room temperature. Nothing was spoiled, but I was sure it was not my imagination that something was off. Sure enough, repairman Stu confirmed that our thermostat (he call… Read full post »

Yesterday it was announced that Denver's new One Book, One Denver program has selected The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. The program began in 2004, starting with  Peace Like A River, by Leif Enger. However, once the initial glow of the program wore off with the next three selections (Caramelo, b… Read full post »

There was an interesting post yesterday  by Lester Hunt about invective and incivility, wherein he says, "American leftists must know in their hearts that for at least six or seven years their attitude toward GeorgeW. Bush has been one of more or less pure hatred. And those on the other side… Read full post »

Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, earned a law degree, studied abroad, and sought federal office. Palin has been plucked from obscurity with no special education other than her communications/journalism degree. Her biography does not point toward an aspiration of federal office. Last month, and mayb… Read full post »

Much has been made about the idea of experience and how it (or its dearth) qualifies a candidate for office. I've seen many people trying to equate Sarah Palin's time in office and her leadership duties in city government and then in her governorship as equal to Obama's state congressional work… Read full post »

The video to this story is here

The police officer pushed the reporter from the sidewalk into the street, without provocation, apparently.   Read full post »

This is my favorite image from among the buttons we saw when we went downtown on Monday night. There were so many truly bad t-shirts and other assorted junk for sale, as it should be. We live in the suburbs and so we took the lightrail, which is… Read full post »

Okay, so let's talk about what it looks  like from this vantage, a new member (are we members? posters? blogizens?) on OS (can I call it OS without being presumptuous?) I have been a member for not very long, have already found some favorite writers and am trying tip my… Read full post »

Did you see that New Yorker article earlier this summer about the advent of children's libraries, children's lit criticism, literary infighting, and more? It's worth a look if you like such things.

Part of the article reminded me of being nine, when I was in fourth grade, living for a year… Read full post »