Uncategorized

This was today’s Garfield strip: Jim Davis took to Facebook to claim that he did this strip without checking to see when it would...

Blink. Scrunch up nose. Blink. Blink.

I’m not going to comment on Conan at any length for a while (I’ll probably come back to it in a few weeks, pick a random...

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of November 8th, 2010)

Late this summer a letter arrived at my Ottawa office from a woman living about 40 minutes away in the Quebec village of...

I wanted to highlight John Doyle’s complaint, in the Globe and Mail , that the Giller Prize and occasional author appearances on...

Public school reform in the US is lately attracting a lot of money , intellectual energy, and education "outsiders" to run school...

From the Inbox:

Here I am watching the first episode of Conan , ready to write some thoughts on it. We’re getting it an hour later than in the...

The coincidence of Mary Hart and Vanna White achieving prominence in the same year (they both started in 1982, on Entertainment...