Monthly Archive: September 2014
“And I Wasn’t Dead Anymore”: one story behind ‘A Farewell to Arms’
After he told my great-grandfather about dying on the battlefield, Ernest Hemingway said he’d never write about the war. Fortunately, he soon changed his mind.
When You Don’t Have Time To Scream
Or (“That time when Will Truman and his daughter took a header down the stairs.”)
Even a broken clock…
As Tod predicted last week, after a week of ratings-boosting scandal coverage ESPN has decided it’s time to protect its investment with the NFL.
Jim Traficant, Beamed Up At Last
One of the most colorful members of the US House in Will Truman’s lifetime passed away after an accident involving a tractor.
Saturday!
Comparing the next generation to the last generation (and the one before that, and the one before that, and the one before that…)
If People Talked to Gay Men Like They Talked to Vegetarians: A dialogue
Vikram takes another analogy past its failure point.
I’ve Given Up on U.S. Foreign Policy
A video, a complaint and a bit of sarcasm. Mike Dwyer considers just how stupid our foreign policy is today.
