I've been largely absent from here lately due to massive amounts of work ( Read more... )

From the Guardian

Southerners don't use "asshole"?

The last of the great South Boston snow pile finally melted on Thursday, so we can say it is finally summer in Boston ( Read more... )

John Gunther, writing in Inside Asia (1939):

"There are designs 'in' Singapore; there are also designs 'on' Singapore. No one in the area thinks of anyone except Japan, if you mention possible aggression. The best military information available is that the island is open to attack only from the mainland in the north. A sea approach is almost ( Read more... )

A Boston AM radio station you've probably never heard of just scored a $30,000 commercial buy from Verizon. The station doesn't show up in the ratings. It doesn't even broadcast in English -- nor, for that matter, in Spanish ( Read more... )

...was the 197th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx.

Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt Euch!

In the midst of death, we are in life. So it was at Mount Auburn Cemetery this afternoon, on the first really good day of the season, or at least the first one of which I've been able to take advantage ( Read more... )

Stuart O. Landry, Jr., Ph.D., born September 30, 1924 in New Orleans, LA, died March 17, 2015 in Needham, MA. He grew up in New Orleans, the son of advertising executive, author, and publisher Stuart O. Landry and his wife, Laura Saunders Landry. He graduated from Metairie Park Country Day School in the class of 1942, and enrolled at Harvard ( Read more... )

Verizon's response to the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband Internet service providers as common carriers is printed in International Morse code ( Read more... )

Discussing same-sex marriage in Russian must be difficult, as there is no verb "to get married", but only "жениться" ("to wife onself"), or "выйти замуж" ("to go out after a husband"). They are completely different expressions.

While poking around in a bookstore in Hallowell, Maine the other day I found a 1953 edition of Tolstoi's Anna Karenina in ( Read more... )