Saturday, September 30, 2006
Neil Armstrong Said, “a.” (07:56 PM) - In the summer of 1969, Neil Armstrong was just moments away from making history when he became the first man to walk on Earth’s moon, but he omitted an article in his transmission to mission control on Earth, saying that…
Embarrassing Veronica (10:48 AM) - My dear friend Veronica is in Washington this bright fall, and I’d like to embarrass her by pointing out this Reuters photograph of the president delivering remarks on the Global War on Terror to the Reserve Officers Association in Washington,…
Dino Paul Crocetti and Francis Albert Sinatra (09:47 AM) - I missed the Sunday Morning Sinatra last weekend, and so I offer this one an entire day early. This is a fabulously entertaining medley of tunes sung by Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Look up ‘entertainment’ in the dictionary and…
Bring Back Merriam-Webster Unabridged, Please (09:40 AM) - Dartmouth’s library folks have strapped a bag of cement to we students’ vocabularies, and they’re just a-droopin’ on down. Students looking for English insight beyond the meager offerings of Dictionary.com are now left only with the sometimes ponderous Oxford English…
Condoleezza Rice Convinces Bret Stephens (09:33 AM) - In this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens interviews Condoleezza Rice and fails to emerge from the meeting with that yearned-after coyness….
Brazilian plane goes missing over Amazon (09:02 AM) - There are only two ways something such as this could fadge: tragic or sexy. Unfortunately, the former is more likely. UPDATE: Oh gosh, well it is not simply that they lost track of the plane. The plane, sadly, did indeed…