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Funding withdrawn, apology to follow
"Caught in a maelstrom of public reaction to its decision to cease funding Planned Parenthood, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation announced Friday that it would reverse course." -- Washington Post You’re on your own now, pet In a surprising departure from past...
Grimm tales for these grim times
Once upon a time there lived a woodcutter who could no longer afford to feed his children. “Off you go,” he said, shoving them out the door. “Fine. Whatever,” said Hansel. “We were going to run away anyway if we didn’t get a Wii for Christmas.” He and his sister set...
Great writers, bad mistakes
Great works of literature can be discouraging for the novice writer. You labor for months to create something as enduring as Persuasion or Middlemarch, all the while suspecting that you’re not going to make it with your own book, Bread-Pudding Days. But even the...
Siegfried writes a blog post
The New York Met's current production of Wagner's Siegfried has got me thinking: how would a blog post by the man himself turn out? Maybe something like this? My crappy childhood Hello everyone. My name is Siegfried. No last name. Just Siegfried. I was raised in a...
It’s only catalogical
How do you feel about catalogs? (Or as we used to spell them, “catalogues,” before we got too busy to type the “ue.") I have to confess, I'm ambivalent. Weeks pass in which I don’t feel an urge to buy anything except for necessities: chocolate, toothpaste, printer...