My Brilliant Mistakes is currently mired in a home office cleanup project, which prevents our doing much beyond carrying bags of ancient receipts and ink- and tear-stained manuscripts to the curb. For your entertainment in the meantime, I point you to the wonderous Pop vs. Soda Page. Please know that I am a staunch “soda” …
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Hold the mayo
If the searches in our referrers log are any indication, people have taken a sudden interest in sandwiches named in honor of Pittsburgh’s rookie quarterback phenomenon. We suggest these hungry folk check out today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which offers recipes for the Roethlis-burgher sandwich from Brentwood Express and the Roethlisburger from Peppi’s restaurants. The two sandwiches …
Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles
It shouldn’t be a surprise that most of the publications I read have come out in support of Senator John Kerry in tomorrow’s election. Maybe my thinking is shaped by what I’ve read; maybe I gravitate to those with like minds. But I am surprised a little, in two cases. One traditionally doesn’t take a …
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Reverse the curse
Are we done with baseball finally? It seems to stick around longer with each passing year. But now that one curse has been broken, we can set our sights on another: the trend of the Washington Redskins home game predicting the winner of the presidential election. Since the Redskins became the Redskins in 1933, the …
If you torture the data long enough, Nature will confess
I promise the political content of this site will soon return to its usual, low level. (Certainly by November 3.) But now that we’ve learned for whom novelists will be voting, perhaps we should also consider who is favored by economists … or at least who they believe would do a better job managing the …
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Also, his wife is hot hot hot
Forget the soccer moms and NASCAR dads: Who is winning the novelists’ votes? Lorrie Moore Are there really any novelists voting for Bush? I am tempted, since my vote is almost always bad luck, its recipients almost always losing. (Link via The Morning News.)
The secret is the bun
Having been born in Philadelphia, I know the folks there are particularly about their cheesesteaks. And this example violates every cheesesteak rule I’ve ever heard. But being as it’s lunchtime, that sandwich looks tasty to me right now.
“Not voting is like always letting a man pick your drink….”
Getting single gals out of the bars and spas and into voting booths: Carrie the Vote: Carriethevote.com seeks to draw and attract a single unmarried female audience that has never voted before. Since unmarried women have traditionally been brushed aside in politics for the
Defending democracy
According to Reuters, “[t]he United States has begun flying up to 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to Afghanistan to provide increased security for that country’s Oct. 9 presidential election.” Which is great. Do you think they’ll be back in time to protect “[m]illions of U.S. citizens, including a disproportionate number of black voters” …
Explaining my links: Girls Are Pretty
In “Explaining My Links,” I briefly note the charms that draw me to sites that I list in the blogroll (to the right) but rarely link to in posts. Today’s winning entry: Girls Are Pretty. It’s a non-standard blog, posting brief fictional bits on weekdays. The bits are often odd, sometimes stupid, occasionally perfect, often …