My father is in the hospital recovering from a triple bypass. He is 81. No spring chicken, but his mind is still good and his health overall is really pretty good for his age. I am not with him right now, but my older sister is. My brother was able to visit last weekend and will visit again this weekend. I will be traveling to be with him the entire

*Sigh* Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway have been re- arrested in the case, the Aruban public prosecutor’s office said Wednesday. Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005, hours before she was scheduled to fly home to Alabama after a high school graduation trip to this Dutch Caribbean resort island. The 18-year-old was last seen in public leaving a bar with

By far the most brilliant script of any of the Batman movies. In case you’ve never seen it, here’s Part I.

Should Memphis keep its strip clubs? I haven’t been to a club in about 20 years, I guess, but there’s something not Memphissy about this.  Maybe the guys over at Six Meat Buffet would like to weigh in.

The story has mainstreamed with the St. Louis Dispatch picking it up.

How many months for this? Give a dog a bone? “All the kids were watching the officer shooting the dog. My heart was broken seeing an officer killing my dog.”

Famous founders of Rome and wolfsuckers Romulus and Remus are back in the news after a long hiatus.  It appears that archaelogists have discovered what they believe are the remains of a den on the Palatine that the ancient Romans revered as the Lupercale–the place where Romulus and Remus were raised up by wolves.  So, you see, the link between imperialism and transspecies milk consumption has been there since the

“I’m glad she did get jail. She took a life. She needs to be held accountable.” I shot the sheriff.

Comment by B Moe on 11/20 @ 2:26 pm # |Edit This This is really getting f[*]ucked up: “The father of one of the two 8-year-old suspects spoke with WXIA’s Kevin Rowson and said his son told him that everything that happened in the woods was consensual. Brandon LeBlanc said the girl accused the boys only after her parents had learned she had sexual relations. “There was no violence involved,”

James Lileks pays satirical tribute to the late Mr. Whipple.