Garfield: Accidentally RelevantThis was today’s Garfield strip: Jim Davis took to Facebook to claim that he did this strip without checking to see when it would...
NFL Picks Week 10: Two minutes of bewildered silence in memory of Wade PhillipsBlink. Scrunch up nose. Blink. Blink.
Deliberately Inaccurate ParodiesI’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...
Spain on the eve of war, and an appeal to book publishersLate this summer a letter arrived at my Ottawa office from a woman living about 40 minutes away in the Quebec village of...
It’s the ArtsI wanted to highlight John Doyle’s complaint, in the Globe and Mail , that the Giller Prize and occasional author appearances on...
Mag publisher takes over NYC schoolsPublic school reform in the US is lately attracting a lot of money , intellectual energy, and education "outsiders" to run school...
Conan O’Brien Goes Coco-NutsHere 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...
Mary Hart Replaced By Eve Harrington -- Sorry, By Nancy O’DellThe coincidence of Mary Hart and Vanna White achieving prominence in the same year (they both started in 1982, on Entertainment...