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I am no jock, god knows. My favorite piece of sports equipment is the comfy armchair in which I slump to watch the Yankees. My wife is better, in that she actually likes getting her body moving, but I don’t think she’d call herself an athlete. And jock culture has, for most of my life, [...]

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 days, [...]

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 Sullivan’s [...]