A man widely believed to be the model for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a grave marker bearing his name. Frank L. White died in 1938, and until this week, his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery bore only a tiny concrete marker with no name. On Wednesday, a granite gravestone was placed at his burial site. It bears his name and an etching taken from the

What if love is just imperious soma, Spume of hormones and the baying blood? And what if all I do is dream in coma, Mind unillumed by some alter god? Still the day appears anew in east a-crimsoned, Arising solemn from dark hills behind. Still I thirst for air and pine for pleasure, Still I hunger for more “love” in kind. My feet do feel as though they trip this

From Al Jazeera: The United Nations has extended its mandate for US-led forces in Iraq after the country’s foreign minister said they were “vitally necessary” for security and regional stability. Hoshyar Zebari called the UN security council’s move “very positive for Iraq”. He said all Security Council members understood “what the Iraqi government is facing”, illustrated by the bombing of Samarra’s Askariya shrine on Wednesday by “terrorists … seek to

—Which, to be honest, I’d forgotten all about, until the ACLU sent me an automated email.  At which point I dutifully yanked myself off the couch, thanked the four hobos I’ve been keeping as wash room attendants for their tireless towel and condom service, and handed them each a fiver and slice of buttered bread before unchaining them and forcing them out into the yard with the business end of

Stuart Taylor, in The National Journal, on the May 29 SCOTUS Title VII Ledbetter ruling—5-4, with the conservatives in the majority—which the NYT opined, “struck a blow for discrimination this week”: Are Alito and company really such heartless, pro-discrimination brutes? Hardly. Ginsburg’s dissent was well put. But Alito had the better of the argument as to congressional language and the Court’s own precedents, in my view. And as a policy

Yes.  Harry Reid is a brave man.  A strong man.  A man who speaks his mind and is not afraid to tell a General to his face that he’s incompetent! Or maybe that’s not what he was saying at all.  Here’s Greg Sargent at TPM Cafe, schooling us on the importance of “context”: [Reid’s “incompetent” remark concerning General Pace] was in the context of a discussion of Alberto Gonzales and

oatmeal:  “Sure, I once spent an entire evening trying to get into Betty Crocker’s pants— who hasn’t?  Turns out she’s more into the Little Debbie snack cake type, though.  Which, there’s nothing wrong with that, of course—I just wish I’d known it before I blew $50 on top shelf margaritas and about a half-dozen Slippery Nipples, is all…”