"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
Noms de Spam of the Week: "Octopuses L. Severest" and "Prognosis J. Incarnating," the latter via RC, who also sends along a link to a gallery of cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines. It's good to see annoying junk mail clutter being put to artistic use!
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The horrors of the prison camp at Andersonville during the Civil War are recalled at Critical Mass and Random Pensées.
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On the Republican side, a race-baiting candidate who believes in quack science is considered something of an embarrassment. On the Democratic side, he'd be invited to speak at the national convention.
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Jennifer Graham's piece at NRO is the best I've read on the lady who disposed of two of her unborn triplets so she wouldn't have to shop at Costco.
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Choice Chick vs. the Judgebots: In this Flash animation from Planned Parenthood, the heroine out of the action-packed pages of Our Bodies, Ourselves appears to be a mix of Olympia Snowe and a skinny Janeane Garofalo, and is aided by her backup superheroes, the Ambiguously Democratic Presidential Duo. (Via Bill Cork)
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