Road rage

Whoever made the schedule cares not a whit for rush hour commuters nor their cars’ emissions: This afternoon around 5pm, President Bush will cause the Parkway West, the Pittsburgh Downtown area, and everything else around there grind to a halt while he makes an appearance in support of Senator Arlen Specter. The NRA convention is …

Mm-mmm good!

Life imitates art imitating life: Campbell’s is releasing limited edition cans of soup that mimic the paintings Andy Warhol made mimicking Campbell’s Soup cans. [T]hese limited-edition designs will be available at participating Giant Eagle stores in the Pittsburgh region. The four-pack, which sells for $2, will contain at least two colorful labels based on the …

We all need goals

Anyone whose credits include this kind of accolade is worth looking out for: [Chris] Morris’s last TV work, the 2001 one-off Brass Eye special, was the second most complained-about programme in the Independent Television Commission’s 13-year history, attracting 992 complaints. However, the ITC received a similar number of calls from viewers applauding the programme’s satirical …

Palm-igami

For Catholics and lapsed Catholics in the audience: a Budding Young Theologian, a new featured columnist at Zulkey.com, considers whether it’s sacrilegious to fold, spindle, or mutilate the palm fronds distributed at Palm Sunday Mass. First, I have to say, in all my many years attending Catholic Mass, I

Don’t make a fedral case of it

yourDictionary.com offers 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words. I’m sorry to discover a few mispronunciations that I’m guilty of (“cardshark” for “cardsharp,” “lambast” for “lambaste”) — or maybe I should feel glad to now know how to pronounce them properly. I am pleased to see that I already say most of these properly, including “February.” (Link …