Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2007

Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2007

• Electability: Why Fred Thompson’s the Man for Republicans
• Mars & Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Autism and Presidential Politics
• Happy Birthday, Stan Lee (Superhero of Comics)
• Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish, Again
• Why Iowa? (A Defense of the Iowa Caucuses)
• Deciphering the Human Microbiome (and What It Means for Health & Medicine)
• The Day After Christmas
• A Spin Through Bicycle History
• This Christmas, Just Say “No” to War
• What’s a Humbug, and Other December Oddments
• “Bacn,” “Arborcide,” etc. — the Open Dictionary
• “Success in Progress” Toward a Mine-Free World: 10-Year Progress Report
• The Celebration of Life Through Sports Award: Christopher Minko of Cambodia
• Religion and the 24/7 Media: The Root of the “Culture War”
• Blah and Blaher (To the Political Parties: “Snap Out of It!”)
• George Stevens, Rebel Filmmaker
• Flu Shots For Everyone
• The Great White Fleet of Theodore Roosevelt: 100 Years Ago
• There are no Spaceports in Calcutta
• Republicans for Obama? The Odd Conversation with my Father
• The Role of 9/11 in Campaign 2008 (The Tube on the Trail)
• The Two Nobel Lectures of Doris Lessing
• Sex, Christian Conservatives, and Private Vice: Whither American Conservatism, Part 3
• Poinsettias: The Skinny on the Christmas Flower
• Hillary and the “B-word”
• The Double-Bind Dilemma for Women Leaders
• Beware the Big Idea
• The Kindle, War Words, and the World’s Worse Airports (Heard ‘Round the Web)
• Religion and the “Culture War,” So Called
• What Are They Reading (Part II)
• Romney, Thompson, and God (Campaign 2008)
• Cancer on the Night Shift: Why Night Workers Are at Risk
• Pearl Harbor Remembered
• Web-to-Print Publishing at Britannica: Books and Bytes
• Obama: A Sneaky Stacking of the Decks in Iowa?
• The Festival of Maps
• “Blogocracy,” “Fake ‘n’ Bake,” etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Alternatives to Animal Testing
• Retirement: Not as Easy as It Looks
• The Palestinians: Sixty Years of Missed Chances
• Christmas, Cash, and Commodities
• Dear Workers: Thanks for the Cash
• Republicans and “The Book” (The Bible, That Is)
• Happy Birthday, Jacques Barzun
• What Exactly are Kids Reading in those “Reading Blocks”?
• Is Terry Eagleton the Next William Blake?
• Eating Locally: Or, the Day of the Locavores
• How Hard is it to Caucus in Iowa, Really?
• The Iraq War: Still An Issue in Campaign 2008? (The Tube on the Trail)
• Do We Understand the Technologies We Use?
• Political Labels: Are You a Right-Wing &#!@% or a Left-Wing &#!@%?
• Tenured Professors: An Endangered Species
• Facing Down the Skeptics in Education
• Thanksgiving Movies, Light and Dark
• Thanks to Our Troops, Due and Past Due
• Media Manipulation and Judicial Appointment Politics (Campaign 2008)
• Ghosts of 1992: Management Styles and the ‘Toughness Issue’ (Campaign 2008)
• The Cranberry: A Bitter Pill to Swallow
• That Creation Museum
• Conservative Big Government: Whither American Conservatism, Part 2
• “Simulpost,” “Disemvowel,” etc. — The Open Dictionary
• The Problem with Political Poetry
• The Celebration of Life Through Sports Award: Matthew Hunt
• November Oddments: NASCAR, Train Wrecks, Old Vets, and Marcel Proust
• Comic Strips and the American Midwest (Happy Birthday, Mutt!)
• Art and Elitism: A Form of Pattern Recognition
• The Iowa Caucuses are Like the Electoral College
  (At Least for Democrats)
• “Me Too” on the Tube: Sharing the Spotlight in TV Coverage
  (Campaign 2008)
• How Stars Get Their Names (And, No: They’re Not For Sale!)
• 30 Years of Close Encounters: Spielberg, Hynek, and UFOs
• What is Information?
• Crisis and Change in the Christian Right Movement:
  Whither American Conservatism, Part 1
• Privacy: A Rare Commodity in the Digital Age
• Technology and the Lost Art of Crooning
• Hey! Where You Kids Going in that Handbasket?
• Circus Animals: Abused and Dangerous
• A Dictionary for Deep Space
• It’s Guy Fawkes Day!
• The Politics of the Armenian Genocide
• “Menergy,” “Helicopter Parents,” etc. — The Open Dictionary
• What Reading Novels Can Change
• Darfur: A Problem Worth Solving
• Prince, Osama, and Our “Top Living Geniuses”
  (Heard ‘Round the Web)
• The Internet: Revolution, or Blip?
• Six Great Cemeteries
• Haunted Libraries Around the World: The Complete List
• Abortion and the Founding Fathers on the Campaign Trail
• Symphonies of Terror: Halloween Movie Soundtracks to Make You Shiver
• The Tube on the Trail: The Queen of Late Night
  (Hillary Clinton)
• Science and Religion: Protesting Too Much
• The Iowa Caucuses: Do We Have a Date?
• Scared to Visit Israel? (D.C. is Scarier!)
• Urine Factories and the Menopause Horse Industry
• Too Graphic: Sex, Literature, and Our Schools
• Remembering Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood Lion
• Saying it in German
• World War III? (The Case of Iran)
• Haunted Libraries Around the World: Europe, Asia, Australia, Mexico
• How Do They (the Republicans) Expect to Win?
• Daniel Boone: Myth and Reality
• A Place Called Peculiar
• When is a Political Debate Not Just a Debate?
• The “L” Word in American Electoral Politics
• “Teleschool,” “Soygurt,” etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Haunted Libraries in the U.S.: Utah – Wyoming (and Canada)
• The Fake Raymond Carver: Expansive or Minimal?
• Guilty Pleasure Books, Part 4: Romances and Other Genres that Adults Shouldn’t be Caught Reading
• Dissertations and Their Meaning
• Dizzy Gillespie: Happy Birthday
• So Many People, So Many Cars
• Student Learning as a Focus of American Education: What a Concept!
• Electoral College Reform: Lessons From California
• The Celebration of Life Through Sports Award:
  Coach Kathy
• Haunted Libraries in the U.S.: Pennsylvania – Texas
• The Tube on the Trail, Campaign 2008
• Norway Decides the U.S. Presidency?
  (Al Gore’s Future)
• And the Republican Presidential Nominee is … General Petraeus?
• Al Gore, the Nobel Prize, and the Politics of Science
• The Lecturer – A Poor Excuse for a Teacher
• Guns, Schools, and Mayhem: A Most Cruel Week
• Haunted Libraries in the U.S.: Nebraska – Oregon
• An October Miscellany
• We’re Already at War with Iran
• Iran Can’t Go Nuclear (Europe, Israel, and Bush’s Successors Won’t Allow It)
• Negotiation, Not War: How to Deal with Iran
• “Blowback” and Responsibility: What
  America Owes Iran
• No Legitimate Justification for War with Iran
• Ladies and Gentlemen, the next President of the United States!
• Iran with the Bomb, or Bomb Iran: The Need for Regime Change
• Oil, Israel, and America: The Root Cause of the Crisis
• War with Iran: Probable (& Disastrous)
• The Big Lie: “Iran Is a Threat”
• The Crisis with Iran: When, Where, and
  How the U.S. May Attack
• Mobilizing Support for a Strike on Iran
• Wanted: One Willing Billionaire
• (S)Weepin’ Away Again in Wrigleyville
• War With Iran? (Blog Forum)
• Saul Bellow, Race, and Chicago
• The 13 Keys to the White House: Why the
  Democrats Will Win
• Sputnik: A Somber Anniversary
• Haunted Libraries in the U.S.: Massachusetts – Missouri
• Is Next Year Here for Cubs: 13% Can’t be Wrong, Can They?
• Of Mice and Penguins: Banned Books Week
• “SPACE AGE IS HERE”
• Bumper Sticker Politics: Obama in the Lead
• Haunted Libraries in the U.S.: Florida – Maryland
• Hokies Respect and Perhaps the Best-Behaved Fans in Sports
• Presidential Power and That Thing Called the Constitution
• “Don’t Know Much about Algebra”
• Webisode, Screenager, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Cinematic Revolutions
• Haunted Libraries in the U.S.: Alabama – D.C.
• What’s Really Being Taught in that College Classroom?
• My Eye is on the Prize
• The Bull Market in Bear Parts
• Reading the Mind
• Who Really Writes History?
• Cubs Sweep Pirates as Fans Go Tomahawk Choppin’
• Shark-Eating Man: The Real Predator of the Sea
• Failing Our Geniuses
• Cardiac Chicago Cubs Thrill Wrigley Blackberry-Watching Crowd
• The World of Film Festivals
• The Celebration of Life Through Sports Award:
  Alexi Maguire
• Confessing & Crusading
• The Real Choice in Education: Learning from Success or Making Excuses for Failure
• Land, Ho! The Northwest Passage is Open for Business!
• Celebrating Life Through Sports
• Final Homestand, Final Judgment for Cubs: Avoiding 99 Bottles of Losses on the Wall
• Is Satire a Lost Art?
• “Guybrarian,” “Pitawich,” etc. – The Open Dictionary
• The Flooding of Findlay, The Muddying of Main Street, U.S.A.
• Why We Eat and Eat What We Do: Book Excerpt
• Eco-Nirvana (a.k.a., Fanaticism)
• “Islam and the West” Six Years after 9/11
• September 11 and the “Shelf Life” of Grief
• Walking and Other Philosophical Exercises
• Transsexuals, Mother Teresa, and Holocaust Denial
  (Heard ‘Round the Web – Religion)
• Preserving Poverty in the New Middle Ages
• Guilty Pleasure Books, Part 3: Best-Selling “Trash” Hidden in a Brown-Paper Wrapper
• Taunting and Booing and The Crowd: Notes From the Friendly Confines
• Music Technology: Louder, Bigger, Better
• Reading Backwards through History: The 1990s
• Forty-five Years Later in America (My High School Reunion)
• Jack Kerouac’s On the Road at Half a Century
• The Magic of Wrigley, in Victory and in Defeat: Notes From the Friendly Confines
• Once Upon a Time in America
• “Tactical Momentum” in Iraq and Our New Sunni “Friends”
• Nosebleed seats: $16; Pretzel: $3; September at Wrigley with the Cubs in First: Priceless
• Diana and the Cult of Celebrity Forum: Overview
• Cubs Drop Opener to Astros 6-1, but Look on the Bright Side
• Natural-Born Celebrities:
  Serial Killers in American Culture, Part 2
• Interview with Tina Brown, Author of
  The Diana Chronicles
• Natural-Born Celebrities:
  Serial Killers in American Culture, Part 1
• Chicago Cubs Rally to Drop Brewers to Third: Notes From the Friendly Confines
• The Age of Celebrity:
  What’s 15 Minutes Really Worth?
• Untangling the Web: A Student Guide to the Internet
• The Loss of Place—and Beach Movies, Too
• The Cult of Leadership & Nationalism Run Amuck
• Celebrity Politics, Political Celebrities
• The Dianafication of Modern Life
• “Equal Representation” California Style: Gaming the 2008 Presidential Vote
• Diana, Beckham, and the Cult of Celebrity
• Celebrity: A Little Bad, A Lot of Good
• Diana & the Celebrity Culture We Enjoy
• Diana, Versace, and the Celebrity Epidemic
• Mae West: The Hardest-Working Woman in Show Business
• Cubs Optimists’ Crash Course in Disappointment (Cubs 4, Cardinals 6): Notes From the Friendly Confines
• Diana and the Royal “Me” Generation
• Sally Crabtree, Opiate of the Commuters
• Sidejack, Hinglish, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Diana and the Cult of Celebrity
• Remembering Elvis: Long Live the King
• The Sporting Life
• Cubs Tumble (Again), Ramirez Bobbles, and Josh Proposes: Notes From the Friendly Confines
• A Pay-to-Play Legislature
• Big Z Falters and Cubs Come Up 2-Feet Short: Notes From the Friendly Confines
• Horse Slaughter in America
• The Horrible Gila Monster Needs Our Help
• Time Out of Mind
• Customer Feedback 2.0: Notes From Britannica’s Electronic Mailbag
• Decision 2008 (The Still Absurd Length of the Presidential Campaign)
• Why TV is Now Better Than Film
  (Heard ‘Round the Web – Pop Culture)
• The Mystery of Mirages
• World’s Largest Music Lesson
• Trophy Kids & “Competitive Birthing”
• Future Tense (Our Obsession with the Future)
• Barry Bonds and the “Urban Myths” About Steroids
• Guilty Pleasure Books, Part 2: True Disaster,
  True Crime Books
• Name That Chicago Cubs Curse
• 20th-Century Literary Genres in a Nutshell: Part 4
• The Art of the “Turtle”
• Glavine’s 300th, Soriano’s Quad, and Kerry’s Komeback: Notes From the Friendly Confines
• Cubs Reverse My Curse: Notes From the Friendly Confines
• E-tailer, Burquini, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Wayward Christian Soldiers and a Blogging Pope?
  (Heard ‘Round the Web – Religion)
• Confessions of a Chicago Cubs Convert
• Are Americans Bad Newspaper Editors?
• Lucille Ball and the Secrets of Show-Business Success
• Harry Potter and the Greening of Publishing
• Teaching to the Test: News From the Education Front
• Memento Mori: Bergman, Antonioni, & Snyder
• John Boorman, Deliverance, and Films Never Made
• Getting Dewey-eyed: News From the Library Front
• The New Cubs Curse: Notes From the Friendly Confines
• Clinton vs. Obama: Experience vs. Change?
• The Book as Object: Books and Bytes
• Doomsday Theory: Watch Out!
• 20th-Century Literary Genres in a Nutshell: Part 3
• Why We Color Butter Yellow: Book Excerpt
• Read Any Good Books Lately?
• Why the Millipede Needs Our Help
• Barbie 2.0 & the Obama Girl
  (Heard ‘Round the Web – Pop Culture)
• Like a Rolling Stone: 42 Years Old
• Stalin Good, Putin Better? Politics, Education, and Indoctrination
• The Elders are Coming!
• Don’t Panic Cubs Fans (Yet): Notes From the Friendly Confines
• Guilty Pleasure Books, Part 1: Mysteries
• 20th-Century Literary Genres in a Nutshell: Part 2
• Cubs Fever: Symptoms and Confessions
• Jane Austen, Rejected
• E-dress, victimist, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Thoughts on the Meaning of Suffering: Part 2
• Some Notes on Lightning Safety
• Thoughts on the Meaning of Suffering: Part 1
• Cubs 2, Giants 4: Notes from the Friendly Confines
• The Beeb Boo-boos
• Testing the Sincerity of the Arab Peace Plan
• John Schlesinger and the Sexual Revolution in Film
• Test for Success, Not Failure, in Education
• Questions (about Marxism and Literature) for Terry Eagleton
• Curse Be Gone: Go Cubs Go
• Shakira, Homer Simpson, and a Sexist Ratatouille?
  (Heard ‘Round the Web – Pop Culture)
• Remembering Woody Guthrie
• Tony Soprano on Design? (Heard ‘Round the Web – Culture)
• Gitmo, the Rule of Law, and American Values
• A School for Play?
• Chautauqua: Of Knowledge and Entertainment
• Jogging Is Right-Wing (Or So Say the French)
• 20th-Century Literary Genres in a Nutshell: Part 1
• Web 3.0: The Dreamer of the Vine
• The Talking Game: Men vs. Women
• How Green Is This Harry Potter?
• Threequel, sexaholic, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• The Dour de France: Steroids & Cycling’s Top Event
• Death Valley and Desert Survival Tips
• We Must Help Lebanon Control the Camps
• Robert Heinlein Centenary
• Why Math Geeks (Especially Immigrant Geeks) Rule
• Another Wiki Mess: The Benoit Tragedy
• Stick a Fork in McCain?
• Why the West Bank First
• The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
• Smooth Transition of Power in British Politics?
• The U.S. Civil War Viewed Anew -
  Via the Internet
• Web 2.0 Forum: Overview
• The Threat to Individuality
• Technology, Temptation, and Virtual Reality
• Knowledge Access as a Public Good
• Brave New (Digital) World, Part II: Foolishness 2.0?
• 10 Ways to Test Facts
• Jabberwiki: The Educational Response, Part II
• Brave New (Digital) World, Part I: Return of the Avant-Garde
• Jabberwiki: The Educational Response, Part I
• Web 2.0: Hope or Hype?
• Blade Runner at 25
• Tony Blair’s Labour Legacy
• From Great Ideas to Our Greatest Opportunity – The Internet
• When to Call the Electrician
• Adichie, Achebe, Equiano
• Information Ain’t the Issue
• Dr. Death is Still Wrong: Part 2
• The Counter-Information Age
• Brian Wilson: The Beach Boy at 65
• The Siren Song of Luddism
• The Siren Song of the Internet: Part II
• Counterfeit Chic and Genuine Fakes
• The Siren Song of the Internet: Part I
• The Importance of Critical Judgment
• What the Gaza War Means
• The New Seven World Wonders: Readers’ Choices
• The Lessons of Father’s Day
• Maoism and the Mass Mind
• “Old Revolutions, Good; New Revolutions, Bad”
• Lost in the Hive Mind
• “Top Students Left Behind”: America’s Real Education Policy
• Authority of a New Kind
• From Contemplative Man to Flickering Man
• The Answer to Web 2.0: Political Activism!
• Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part II
• Arab Accountability – A Difficult Path
• 10 Things You (Maybe) Didn’t Know About Books
• Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part I
• Sahel and U.S. Foreign Policy
• Burial Mates for Eternity (The Question of Cemetery Space)
• Catastrophize, green-collar, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• What Are Conan Doyle’s Undershirts Doing in Texas?
• Spring’s Top 10 Steroid Stories
• Talking with Iran (but Planning for War?)
• Rebels With No Particular Cause
• Dr. Death Is Still Wrong
• The Legacy of Aldo Leopold
• Israel’s Pyrrhic Victory – The Six-Day War
• Books Bashing Faith
• Kobe Bryant the Quitter: How Power Corrupts
• George Will’s Ideological Switcheroo
• The Cyborg Moth War on Terrorism: Life 2.0
• The Book Expo: Reading and Its Well-Contents
• Dissing Allies: The Book Critics’ War on Bloggers
• Resisting Science
• Remembering Mount Everest: Scaling the Greatest Peak
• Rock ‘n’ Roll: Twelve Years and Out?
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Survivor Monologues – New York Magazine
• Do Guantanamo Detainees Write Poetry?
• Deskercise, enablement, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Information is Cheap – Let’s Teach How to Learn
• Musharraf – It’s Time To Quit!
• Pentecost – The Crazy Uncle We Just Ignore
• The Feeling Person: Understanding Emotion
• Contaminated Food – Get Used to It?
• The Joy of Saki
• Math and Winning Strategies
• The Violence in Gaza – What It Means
• Baseball, Partying, and Alcohol Abuse
• Senator Fred Thompson: A Refreshing Non-Campaign
• Palestinians, Israel, and the Arab States: An Opportunity
• On the Eve of Book Expo ’07: Books and Bytes
• So, You Want To Play a (Math) Game?
• Moveable Feasts: Book Excerpt
• Babymoon, Gription, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Healing and Spirituality
• Abortion and Excommunication
• The Explosion of Mount St. Helens
• Terrorism Betting Markets
• Your Congress: A Day in the Life
• The Mystery of Altruism
• Christendom’s Muslim Midwife: Part II
• Christendom’s Muslim Midwife: Part I
• From Hate Crimes to Thought Crimes
• Israel’s Peace with the Arabs
• Jamestown at 400: Happy Birthday, America!
• The Lessons of Mother’s Day
• Iran – A Country on the Brink: Book Excerpt
• Why Weren’t the Jamestown Colonists Wiped Out?
• Monotask, Parkette, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Global Warming and Exotic Species
• The Pit Bull Debate
• The Cycle of Kindness and the Kansas Tornado
• “Believing in” Evolution
• Professor Benedict of Rome
• The Child Abuse Called “College Sports”
• Two Poets Laureate in Chicago
• Economists Agree?!
• Orson Welles: Filmmaker, and So Much More
• Ronald Reagan’s Resilient Regime
• Jamestown: Terrence Malick’s The New World 
• Ethnicity: What Are You?
• Techonomics, Sarcopenia, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Founders & Faith Forum: Overview
• De La Hoya vs. Mayweather: The Wisdom of the Crowd
• Fighting Extremists on Both Sides
• Famous Librarians’ Favorite Books: Part 2
• Brand Equity: Book Excerpt
• Anti-scientism: Which Side Are You On?
• Why Beauty is Truth
• Environmental Refugees & the Growing Desert
• You’re Crazy! You’re Damned! – The U.S. Body Politic
• The Democrats’ Debate: It’s Not What They Said, But How They Said It
• A Blog by Any Other Name
• Michael Vick – Quarterback of Dogfighting?
• John Murray and the Death of Book Reviewing
• What Is Christianity?
• Flexitarian, Slamball, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• What Do We Tell Children About Virginia Tech?
• John James Audubon and the Sense of the Wild
• Life on Earth: Bad Things Happen
• Libertarianism – The Struggle Ahead
• Chicago Project on Animal Treatment Principles
• Reagan Foreign Policy Ideas Still Relevant
• Letters to a Young Mathematician
• The U.S. is Two Countries?
• The Virginia Tech Murderer Video – Did You Watch It? Why?
• It’s Real (If You Think It Is): The Quantum Enigma
• Hank Aaron: Swallow Hard and Show Up
• Be a Star (At Least in Virtual Reality)
• Velcrocity, Ginormous, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Holocaust Denial: Iranian Style
• The Most Important Rock Band in the World
• Traumatization, the Media, and Virginia Tech
• On Current Events
• The New Panama Railroad: World’s Ninth Wonder
• Famous Librarians’ Favorite Books: Part 1
• Survivor Guilt and Virginia Tech
• Googling Darfur
• Terrorist Democracy – The “Islamic Roadshow”
• Moral Minority–America’s Skeptical Founding Fathers, cont.
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Top 10 Steroid Questions for Baseball 2007
• Permalancer, Raisinize, etc. — The Open Dictionary
• Number Symbolism, Part V: Numbers 16-20, Plus 100
• The Blogosphere at Ten
• The Dark Side of the “Citizen Media” Revolution
• Earliest Printed Books in Select Languages, Part 2: 1501-1879
• Number Symbolism, Part IV: Numbers 11-15
• A-Rod, Derek Jeter, and the World’s Most Demanding Fans
• Rock ‘n’ Roll Thoughts
• Number Symbolism, Part III: Numbers 6-10
• Sunday’s Perfect Storm–Misconceptions about the Masters
• The Globalization of Militancy
• Christian Stoics and Skeptical Christians
• Number Symbolism, Part II: Numbers 1-5
• Ovid, Poet of Transformation
• Paul Watson–Animal Saviour or Ecoterrorist?
• Lessons on Living From the Dying
• Number Symbolism, Part I: Lincoln and Kennedy
• Nuclear Autumn
• The Harpies of Central America
• The Killing Fields of Canada–The Annual Seal Hunt
• Moral Minority–America’s Skeptical Founding Fathers
• Just What Does Organic Mean, Anyway?
• Publish Locally, Publish Globally: Book Excerpt
• Why the Allies Didn’t Bomb the Death Camps: Part III
• Let’s Teach Walking!
• My Generation Is Audience
• Memory and Its Enemies: or, Fuhgeddaboudit
• Why the Allies Didn’t Bomb the Death Camps: Part II
• Iraq: Who’s to Blame?
• Legos–Those Evil Tools of Capitalist Domination
• Why the Allies Didn’t Bomb the Death Camps: Part I
• The State of the World–The 2007 Britannica Book of the Year
• Charles Dickens and the Romance of Repellant Things
• Earliest Printed Books in Select Languages, Part 1: 800-1500 A.D.
• Crude, Gruesome, and Hateful–The Politics of Theatre Review
• Philip K. Dick–Even Paranoiacs Have Enemies
• Steroids, the Polygraph Test, and the Hall of Fame
• The Good, the Bad, the Quotable
• How the Internet Killed the Dating Game
• The Simpsons Conquer the World
• Iranian Intransigence, Iranian Vulnerability
• It’s My Climate, and I’ll Shout if I Want To
• Trap-Neuter-Return: A Solution for Feral Cats
• The Ultimate Cigar–The Festival of Forbidden Fruit
• The Reichstag Fire and the Enabling Act of March 23, 1933
• The Quest for the Perfect Pancake
• Publish (Electronically) or Perish: Book Excerpt
• Fun Facts About the OCLC Top 1000
• Nos morituri–On Wills and Trusts
• The Cat in the Hat Turns 50
• The California Condor–Snatched From the Brink
• Ol’ Pete Rose—What’s So Surprising?
• Monoculturism
• How Not to Read
• Asteroids: Is Planetary Armageddon Looming?
• Career Building
• E-Books and the New Paradigms of Publishing: Book Excerpt
• Ian Paisley’s Dilemma
• Foie Gras: Too High a Price?
• Slapstick, Mack Sennett, and Anarchism
• Murder in the Library, Part 2: J – Z
• King of the Road (Pickup Trucks and SUVs)
• The Universal Language
• Fats Domino and the Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll
• New Air Power, New Leadership Needed to Deal With Iraq: Part II
• I Get It; You Don’t (Disagreements)
• New Air Power, New Leadership Needed to Deal With Iraq: Part I
• Election 2008′s Myspace Wars
• Lessons From the Faith of the U.S. Founding Fathers
• The Invasion of Liechtenstein
• Heroes of the American Kitchen
• Boy, This Global Warming Thing Sure has Traction
• Murder in the Library, Part 1: A – H
• I’m a Real Nowhere Man
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.: R.I.P
• Publishing Without Boundaries: Book Excerpt
• Can Harold Pinter Teach Us How to Live?
• The U.S. Founding Fathers: Their Religious Beliefs, cont.
• Technological Fixes, Fixing Technology
• Misunderstanding Geography: The Iraq War Planners’ Basic Blunder
• My Friends
• The God of Liberty and the U.S. Founding Fathers
• William Wilberforce’s Amazing Grace
• The Return of Coyote
• Tort Reform–A Suggestion or Two
• The Souls of Black Folks
• The U.S. Founding Fathers: Their Religious Beliefs
• What Does a Film Producer Do?
• Little Ice Ages
• The U.S. Founding Fathers: A Diversity of Characters
• The U.S. Founding Fathers: How Did They Pull It Off?
• The Burden of Daily Accoutrements
• George Washington Didn’t Sleep Here (and Other White House Trivia)
• The U.S. Founding Fathers: Achievements and Failures
• David Lean: Master of the Wind-Swept Epic
• The U.S. Founding Fathers: Who Were These Guys?
• Those Subservient Brits
• Decision 2008 (The Absurd Length of the Presidential Campaign)
• Poets Laureate and U.S. Propaganda
• Basketball—a Sort-of-Homegrown Sport Gone Worldwide
• Love in the Stacks–6 Library Makeovers
• Ignorance
• Obama and Australian PM Smackdown Proves Senator Ready for Primetime
• Eye of the Tiger: Woods’ Chase of Byron Nelson
• Searching for the Abominable Snowman
• Right Reason
• Latest Global Warming Report: Responsibilities and Opportunities
• Exploiting the Nuclear Threat—Iraq, Iran, and a Plan for Peace (Part II)
• Wikiworld
• Exploiting the Nuclear Threat—Iraq, Iran, and a Plan for Peace (Part I)
• Meet The Beatles
• Crackpottery (Utopianism)
• Multiple Macbeths—or, See Spot Run
• Year of the Cub? Getting over my Bearish Hangover
• The Trouble with Utopia
• Ian Rankin on the Literature of Edinburgh
• Just How Big Is Iran?
• Trans Fats: An Endangered Species?
• Brighter Days at Huxley College (The Babble of Postmodernism)
• Dante Gets a Makeover
• The New Battle of Kosovo
• “Open the pod bay door, Hal!” (Computers Do Not Play Chess)
• Death and Taxes
• Robert Burns Night and the Warm-Reekin Haggis
• Women in Charge: The State of the Union, Visual Politics, and the 2008 election
• Sez Who? Part Two (How Do We “Know” Things?)
• What 2001 Got Right—and Wrong
• Dallas, JFK, and the Ghosts of Camelot
• The Death of Professional Tennis?–Notes From “The Sports Professor”
• I Heard the Americans Sing (The Lost Art of the Sing-Along)
• Sez Who? (How Do We “Know” Things?)
• Hrant Dink: The Murder of Free Speech
• What Kafka Can Tell Us About Today’s Europe
• The Short, Unhappy Life of Edgar Allan Poe
• Listing the Polar Bear
• Muhammad Ali’s Lost Legacy
• Shhhh! Listen! (Are We Alone in the Universe?)
• Spending it on Beckham: MLS Messiah or Déjà Vu All Over Again?
• Death by Molasses
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