No jokes, please, about the hostage situation at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Maryland. A nut with a gun is no laughing matter, and we certainly hope everyone gets out of that building unhurt. Even James Jay Lee, the (inevitably three-named) alleged hostage-taker. What you’ll be hearing a lot about, in the next couple of …
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A bit of news came home from school last week: “The kids were exposed to a coxsackie virus.” What that is (I learned) is almost anything, from a mild flulike bug to something that causes nasty sores. Whatever: He seemed fine, didn’t show any symptoms, and (once we confirmed that last week’s biter was not …
Nice post here on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish blog, following the tsunami of coverage of that lady in Britain who tossed a stray cat into a trash bin. She was caught on camera and identified, and now she gets death threats. This sort of thing follows any cruelty-to-animals story, and it does seem to me—as …
Got home a little early for once yesterday, and my wife arrived from the daycare pickup a few minutes later. “So look at this,” she said, holding out our little boy’s arm to reveal two pairs of dark-red scabs. “That’s a bite.” At first I misunderstood, because I had just moments earlier been reading a …
