Bats Left/Throws Right

C omes from the unlikely source of A&E, the Arts and Entertainment network, presently plugging the imminent basic cable broadcast debut ...

Patti Smith born December 30, 1946

S o it turns out that riff on the Roosevelt memorial wasn't Newt spouting off in an interview; it was Newt given an hour on FAUX to prov...

S enator Tim Johnson, anyone? He was bigger'n Elvis two weeks ago, but the last CNN website mention of him was ten days previous. The ...

Neon Park (born Martin Muller) December 28, 1940--September 1, 1993

In my neighborhood this sort of thing is called "understated elegance". Sorry the photo crew got there after the enormous inflatab...

I was tooling around town in the Doghousemobile this afternoon and heard Fred Kaplan taking on the Surge Mentality, and specifically Fred Ka...

Joshua Gibson December 21, 1911--January 20, 1947 Today is also the birthday--a full week past the due date, in AD 1953--of one James "...

F irst, Hoosiers have always looked upon Kentucky the way the rest of the nation looks at us, i.e., as the mildly Learning-Disabled cousin y...

"T he army is stressed." Stressed. Stressed. Hello? Mrs. Whittington? I sorry to report there's been an accident, ma'm. Th...

Buy it through World O'Crap and do a good deed while you're at it. Rajiv Chandraserkaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Insi...

Philip David Ochs December 19, 1940--April 9, 1976