Charles Krauthammer, distilling John Kerry’s Iraq policy down to vinegar: “If I’m president,” John Kerry said, “I will not only personally go to the U.N., I will go to other capitals.” For Kerry, showing up at Kofi Annan’s doorstep and sweeping through allied capitals is no rhetorical flourish, no strategic sideshow. It is the essence of his Iraq plan: “Within weeks of being inaugurated, I will return to the U.N.

Dear Jeff: I found your web journal while doing a Google search for ‘whatever happened to Keisha Knight Pulliam?’ (don’t ask) and I just wanted to let you know I liked very much what I read here. 80s music most definitely rocks! I’ll be back! Now, go make me a turkey pot pie! With kind regards (and don’t you, forget about me!) Judd Nelson PS. I support the troops! Thanks,

“Also called the stollenwurm, springwurm, or jumping worm, it is allegedly a cryptid animal described as being anywhere from five to seven feet long with a snake-like form, large clawed legs and a feline appearance in the head region. “Similar creatures have been part of Scandinavian folklore for centuries. The first sightings of the Tatzelwurm (“worm with claws” in German) were in the seventeen hundreds by a farmer who claimed

Update: yes, Icicle Works would do just as well.

We’ll see.

“Since every sign creates an interpretant which in turn is the representamen of a second sign, semiosis results in a ‘series of successive interpretants’ ad infinitum (Peirce). There is no ‘first’ nor ‘last’ sign in this process of unlimited semiosis. Nor does the idea of infinite semiosis imply a vicious circle. It refers instead to the very modern idea that ‘thinking always proceeds in the form of a dialogue —

…We’ll move up into the mountains so far that we can’t be found… C’mon Corvids. You know you want to. Look: already promises are being made! And that’s from a guy. I imagine Jeralyn Merritt will get all drunk and start flinging subpoenas on stage. What? It’s certainly not unheard of.