Archive for June, 2010
I always wondered vaguely about the origin of the term "fifth column," but never got around to looking it up 'til now. Turns out (according to the abovelinked Wikipedia article)...
I turned on the radio during Talk of the Nation's Science Friday yesterday, in the middle of a segment about natural gas in water. At one point (starting at 13:52...
Best recent line from a spam comment: For that brief moment of today I had a little bit of sanity and than I had to hit the pavement to go...
Watched Once Upon a Mattress last night. There were several good rhymes and other good lines in the songs; I especially liked this one: My time is at a premium...
Back in 2002, I posted an entry in my main blog about the Longfellow line “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small” and its antecedents,...
Quite a while back, I read a story (perhaps in the New Yorker or some such?) in which one character would write letters to another, and would sign off with...