Monthly Archives: January 2006

Page 123

From Miss Snark: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t search around and look … Continue reading →

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Just say “no!”

Why, oh, why do people write “recommendation” letters like this? Did they somehow miss the clue train? Something similar (though not quite so hilarious) actually happened to me. I had asked my high school journalism advisor to write me a … Continue reading →

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Ventilators for everyone?

Kevin Drum’s up in arms about a Steven Landsburg article in Slate. I read the article, and I have to say, it’s one of the most tactless and incompassionate pieces I’ve read in a long time. But is it wrong? … Continue reading →

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“Average 8th Grade IQ”

One of the things my server stats page tells me is how people got to my web page. I can even learn the search terms people searching on Google used to locate the site. Today I found a doozy over … Continue reading →

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