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Enough of Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Chinese and other non-Romance languages being poorly translated. It's time for a flood of English ...

On 9 April, Tom Lehrer turned 85 years old. He's probably not as well known anymore in the USA as he seems to be in the UK, which is...

I'm trying to avoid the debate hullabaloo. It's far too much theater criticism by dolts and too little analysis of what's said a...

Roger Allam (First Officer Douglas Richardson and General Campion )    and Benedict Cumberbatch  (Captain Martin Crieff and Christophe...

I've mentioned posts at WFMU  by Kliph Nesteroff a couple of times here ( Woody Allen and  Henry Morgan ). He writes exhaustively detai...

You may have seen the photos of Mitt Romney protesting at Stanford in 1966. From ABC news : "The website BuzzFeed today unearthed an...

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There's a service called  ifft   that allows users to set up automated actions (e.g. email when rain is due tomorrow, message when a new...

Hilarious flyer from California , 1965, held by Rare Books and Manuscripts, Columbia University.   Click image for larger, readable ver...

Can someone help me with Der Spiegel's opinion of the Republican field? 

This has been flying around Twitter, deservedly, this morning. @markdavidson is probably not happy about it. Is it true? I don't k...

O.C. man upset with church teachings convicted of hate crime - latimes.com : "Izad Chavoshan, 32, who lives in Huntington Beach, set tr...

Olympic Logo I'm a sucker for a nice hat. Well done. Though I didn't see these at the Tumblr photoshoplooter , these ...

Coming in 2013, a film of At Swim-Two-Birds . It's one of the two or three funniest Flann O'Brien book s, which makes it among the...

Anna Crilly (probably most well known as Magda from Lead Balloon ) is on Radio Five Live. Anna asks the host if she can try something with...

Man with dead weasel accused of assault "The victim asked, 'Why are you carrying a weasel?' Police said the attacker answered,...

Listen! Simon Greenall is one of those " Hey, it's that Guy! " performers in the UK. He's excellent in a great deal of qu...

By Ken Levine: Roseanne's latest insane rant : "Since there was so much turnover in the writing staff and she had no desire to lear...

Graham Parker: Hotel Chambermaid Not related to recent news, really. I've just been hearing the title phrase more in the past week than ...

Click for larger image. Portrait of a Young Boy holding a Child's Drawing , ca. 1515 Giovanni Francesco Caroto (Italian, ca.1480-1555 Th...