"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
Under the patronage of St. Tammany
Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
The caption for the image at top right here is, "How the Brontosaurus Giganteus Would Look If it Were Alive and Should Try to Peep into the Eleventh Story of the New York Life Building." The New York Journal and Advertiser's breathless coverage of the supposed discovery of the "Most Colossal Animal Ever on Earth" in 1898 is recalled in the Dinosaur section of Strange Science, an entertaining and informative site that chronicles mistakes made on the way toward a modern understanding of paleontology and biology. (Found via Hanno's friend Fr. Sibley)