How many people have died in the war?
The current war has been as lethal to Iraqi civilians as the Second World War was to American soldiers. Really? Yeah, really. Read my latest column here.
German Comedy Records
The other day I said to myself, “Andy, I bet you’d enjoy hearing some German comedy records made between 1904-1909.” I was right, so I sent myself this link.
Department of Corrections
From Saturday’s New York Times: Corrections Published: March 18, 2006 For the Record A brief art review in Weekend on March 3 about photographs by Anthony Lepore at the Marvelli Gallery in Chelsea described one work incorrectly. It shows a…
Weird
Earlier today while reading the paper in a coffee shop, a woman walked up to me, squeezed my hand, and said smiling, “I didn’t recognize you without your glasses on.” I don’t wear glasses. I’d never met the woman before…
The U.S. Department of the Obvious reports that . . .
JetBlue adds US routes in effort to boost salesFri Mar 17, 3:10 PM ET JetBlue Airways Corp. (Nasdaq:JBLU – news), looking for ways to revive its fortunes after a recent spate of bad news, said on Friday it would begin…
Letter of the month
I received the following letter in response to my column about the U.S.’s nuclear agreement with India. I’ve divided it into paragraphs to make it more readable. Otherwise, it’s unedited. Greetings, Good try being a critic of US-India nuclear deal…
Happy thing
It’s a little thing, but it makes me proud. My column about the U.S.’s public diplomacy effort was included in the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy Press Review. The review’s editor, John Brown, even sent me a…
Republican Welfare Queens
A study released today by the non-partisan Tax Foundation shows that the hard-working, tough-minded, self-reliant, so-called Red States are, in reality, mooching welfare states that receive much more money from the federal government that they send it. The study splits…
Multimedia Wednesday
On Wednesday, March 15 at 11 A.M., I’ll be on WXIA-TV’s Atlanta & Company talking about some of the events happening around town this weekend. At 5P.M., I’ll be a guest on Radio Sandy Springs’s Showcase Comedy Happy Hour. The…
That settles it.
No more ecstasy for my pigs. Ecstasy causes depression in pigs COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 10 (UPI) — Danish scientific experiments where Ecstasy was adminstered to pigs may help to explain depression in humans abusing the drug. The three-year study conducted…