From Taranto’s Best of the Web, this report: Sad news from the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times Leader: A mother who lost her daughter in a well-publicized automobile accident in Massachusetts nearly 39 years ago was remembered Saturday as a caring woman who loved talking, drinking coffee and making pancakes for breakfast.Gwen L. Kopechne, 89, died on Dec. 20 at the Valley Crest Nursing Home in Plains Township. A small gathering of family

Datadave, datadave, These three things for thee I crave: 1) Thinking more clearly, 2) Speaking sincerely, 3) Listening more nearly, Datadave.

Bob Herbert at the NYT. What’s just so happening, Bob? It just so happens that the Democratic presidential candidates are campaigning this week in the misogyny capital of America: Nevada. It’s a perfect place to bring up the way women are viewed and treated in this society, but don’t hold your breath. Presidential wannabes are hardly in the habit of insulting the locals. Prostitution is legal in much of Nevada

I am regularly beseiged, online, with ads, emails, and FaceBook applications that apparently wish to entice me to discover who’s looking for me. These are exactly the people whom I am hoping to avoid, in all likelihood.

The blog at The American Prospect embeds a five-minute documentary on “Hollywood’s vilification of Arabs” to suggest that they are “Today’s Go-To Villains.”  At The Atlantic, Ross Douthat responds in part: So far as I could tell, the most recent clips are from Aladdin and True Lies, both of which are fifteen years old. In the seven years since 9/11, with the nation embroiled in a global struggle in which

Just for the record, months ago, when he first announced, I wrote IowaHawk about doing Obama Superstar: Obama, Hey-Bama, Bama Bama, Obama, Hey-Bama, Obama! Barry, Barry, won’t you rescue me? Bama, Obama, Hey, Superstar! But to do this properly, since I don’t really have the time (and my computer’s on the fritz), I’m wondering whether we can’t divvy the thing up, with people taking a song or two to parodize.