A supercut of Thanksgiving dinners from movies, all of them hopefully much worse than yours this year. ↩︎ posted Nov. 23, 2016 My children have never sat down to a proper Thanksgiving dinner in my household, but we have an annual tradition of restaurant leftovers—capon, mash, gravy and pie—at
The question is whether the image of Mrs. Clinton, composed and gracious in defeat, persevering through pain, will inspire women to try again? How Hillary handles pain. ↩︎ New York Times, posted Nov. 10, 2016 “This telenovela is still in development.” Trump did better with Hispanics than Bob Dole in 1996
How to make the Nasty Woman: An election night cocktail. See also: Life lessons from Sasha Petraske’s posthumously released book Regarding Cocktails. ↩︎ posted Nov. 8, 2016 At this, point there are five equally-likely outcomes in this election: 1) Your candidate wins. 2)You take up smoking again. 3)
Riveting story of a diver who survived in an air pocket for two days after being trapped in an underwater cave. ↩︎ BBC, posted July 18, 2017 The deadliest American maritime disaster in decades In case you wanted to know what a helicopter rescue at sea is like, this frightening long-
House Intelligence Committee Asks Obama to Just Say No House Intelligence Committee sends a bipartisan letter to President Obama urging him not to pardon Snowden, reminding him that he said in a news conference in 2013, “I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.” ↩︎ posted Sept. 16, 2016 The
In the 1660s, German alchemist Hennig Brand intended to turn urine into gold. But 1,500 gallons of dehydrated pee led him instead to discover phosphorus. From Wikipedia’s history of alchemy: “In the eyes of a variety of esoteric and Hermetic practitioners, alchemy is fundamentally spiritual. Transmutation of lead
A conversation with Sarah Hepola, author of the bestselling “Blackout,” about investigating the worst kind of memories—those you never had.
A two-week journey across the US—specifically towns named Paris, with a clipboard and a hundred questionnaires—to uncover what Americans think about the French.
And so here we are at the end. I don’t know how many episodes of contemporary British detective television I’ve watched. Hundreds. A thousand. Of those, maybe three or four of them I regret—but the other nine-hundred and whatever were great time-wasters when I needed
Here is the robe I want. Minute three, second 15, Jeremy Brett playing Sherlock Holmes. Smoking at the table, he wears a coat of taupe draping that looks heavy enough to be worn outdoors in the snow, but so soft (is it merino? Boiled wool?) it’s appropriate at 4
