The hospitality of lepers is precious – it’s all they have. They smile sadly at the grace with which I refuse their fruit. Together we dance manners as fine as any court in Christendom.

“Between us girls, would it help to clarify the issue if you knew that Hungary is land-locked?” – CDR to MAJ (EUCOM) on why a deployment from Hungary is likely to proceed by air vice sea And there’s dozens more. I’ve never been in the military, but it sounds kinda like a Fortune 500 with air capabilities…. [THX: Sam King.]

I love Albert Brooks. Hollywood doesn’t have a lot of people with his combination of brains and humor. So you really ought to read his take on the Boomers hitting 60. Some stray thoughts: The way people are carrying on, it might be more accurate to say that Boomers are hitting 60…like a blue jay hitting an extremely clean glass

Hmmm. The usual objections apply, I suppose. I feel like a large percentage of my answers weren’t so much statements of absolute principle as they were practical reactions to the unseemly realities of the political condition I have to live in. If people would behave themselves a lot of these scores would shift. But what is mostly revealing in this

Man approaches counter in video store, holding copy of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Clerk (late 20s, somewhat nerdish looking) I can help you with that. Man Before I get this one I have a question. Do you have any Buster Keaton? I checked Classics and Comedy, but I may have missed it. Clerk, turning to terminal Let me check.

Feckin’ priceless. Justice has come around, and it’s riding a moped…. [Thx: fikshun.]

Somebody want to pour Fred Smoot a nice tall glass of shutthefuckup juice?

Here’s my favorite part: “The AT&T brand reflects what customers are looking for in a provider,” SBC CEO Edward Whitacre Jr. said in a statement. “They want the latest technology and services, but they also want reliability, quality and trustworthiness. Only the AT&T brand offers this ideal combination of traits.” Clearly Mr. Whitacre never dealt with AT&T’s Wireless division (now

catwhite has sent along a link to the Wal-Mart healthcare memo from WalMartWatch.com. [sigh] Once upon a time there was this thing called the “cost of doing business.” It was understood that in order to make money you had to spend money and there were going to be costs. The trick was to align those costs so that they fostered

Friends, It’s my great pleasure to announce that this afternoon I accepted an offer to join The Bloom Agency as its new Director of Strategic Development. We still aren’t 100% sure what that title means, exactly, but the good news is that Art Bloom, the agency’s Principal, actually looked at the “diversity of experience” on my resume and saw something

If you scroll down, you’ll see that earlier today I had a brief entry about the death of Wellington Mara. If you check the comments, you’ll see that one of my former students, Tom Shortell, was stunned that I’d marked Mara’s death before that of Rosa Parks. Of course, read on and you’ll see that I had an excuse, sort

I’ve been asking questions for the past few days. All kinds of questions. Some of the questions appear to be aimed at others, but in truth, they’re mostly aimed at the guy in the mirror. The last few months have found me asking more questions of myself than at perhaps any other time in my life, and certainly in the

One of the great ones just died. RIP, Wellington Mara.

I was watching football Sunday and got to thinking, as I sometimes do, about choices I made in life and how things might have been different had I followed one path instead of another. For instance, what if I had thrown myself into the pursuit of football with as much fervor as I did academics? I had plenty of size

The Herald-Sun’s Frank Dascenzo is doing a happy dance over John Bunting’s contract extension at Carolina. Which is fine – I certainly have nothing bad to say about Bunting. But Dascenzo needs to remove his blue-tinted glasses for just a second when talking about UNC’s success relative to the rest of the Big 4, especially Wake.