Here is the Lileks parody of Crazy Andy’s appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s show.  Enjoy.

Andrew Sullivan went on the Hugh Hewitt show to plug his new book, with Sully quickly comparing the interview to a kind of Spanish Inquisition. I had always understood that NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition. Yet part of Sullivan’s first answer in the interview was to remark: I don’t think that you’re necessarily always the fairest of interviewers. So Sully thought he knew what he was in for, decided it

(not to be confused with B Moe) Why did we call him C-Mo?  His actual name was George.  He was my big brother at my frat.  We called him C-Mo, in part because his last name was Lester, and in part because it just fit.  When George graduated and was still working at Annie’s, just outside of Hanover, we rented a really cool home just outside of town, up on

Apparently, it’s white and powdery.  So far, no evacuations. Clinton: “Heh heh. Good ol’ Sandy.” Dismemberment Murder Rivets New Orleans NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans is a city fascinated with the macabre. Carriage drivers regale French Quarter tourists nightly with phantasmagoric tales of black magic, debauchery and murder. Visitors stroll around the legendary cemeteries, known as “Cities of the Dead,” and enjoy picnic lunches amid grand but crumbling tombs that

Here’s tonight’s slate of musical moments from YouTube, as gathered from my regular web gig at Claude Pate: A young Van Morrison leads Them through “Here Comes The Night” and “Turn On Your Love Light” at the 1965 NME Poll Winners Contest. But wait, there’s more…

There was a druggie frat at Dartmouth when I was there, till someone fell off of the roof, which was accessible through the cupola.  There’s a story about someone who had a little too much punch, and when the Campus Police arrived to check into an overdose report, they shook his shoulder.  “Son,” said the officer, “can you walk?” “Walk?” replied the student, “I can DANCE!” Whereupon he stood up

Dan Riehl, who is seemingly everywhere in the lead-up to the midterm elections, has the story. Money quote: His friends also wonder whether it was Webb’s temperament that led at least partially to his writing a Washingtonian magazine article in 1979 about women in combat called “Women Can’t Fight” that some female midshipmen say encouraged hostility and sexual harassment. The inflammatory article has become one of the turning points of