My cousin Stephanie Bauman sent this to me. It’s a kind of a test (an ungraded one) that evaluates if you’re really from Baltimore (or, to be more precise, if you’re really from Baltimore and from a certain era–mostly the 1950s and 1960s.) You could only buy a Volvo from Michaelson Motors on Reisterstown Rd, …
At the start of the financial crisis in 2007, my friend Chris Napolitano noted that the from the public’s point of view, the Indispensable Man had taken himself out of the battle. He was talking about Eliot Spitzer, whose work as Attorney General in exposing misdeeds on Wall Street certainly had certainly positioned him as …
In the day’s most astonishing story, Kevin Sieff of The Washington Post reports that “A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War — a claim rejected by most historians but often made by groups seeking to play down slavery’s role as a cause …
“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now,” President Obama recently told a group of Democratic donors in Massachusetts, “and facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country …
Paul Newman, Natasha Richardson and Lauren Bacall, enroute to a party for Talk magazine, August 1999. Photograph by Daffyd Jones. Found on Jeff Wells‘s site Hollywood Elsewhere.
My friend Josh Green of The Atlantic created quite a splash this past week by revealing that Rich Iott(pictured, second from right), the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio’s 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments. As Josh reports, Iott was …
Down 5-1, the Rangers looking capable and confident, C.J. Wilson pitching the game of his life, the Yankees strike. Gardner beats out a slow roller with a head-first slide. Jeter doubles, scoring Gardner. Score is 5-2. Rangers change pitchers. Swisher walks. Teixiera walks. Rangers change pitchers. On the first pitch, Rodriguez smashes a grounder to …