An old schoolhouse, two feed stores, an “84 Lumber” yard, the sheriff’s substation and a western wear store were the notable tenants on the main street of Lakeside, California. It was just a half-hour’s drive from the beaches of San…
by Kristen Roupenian
How much can one man get done in twelve years? Well, quite a bit. “At this rate of decline” — in the admission of black and Latino students to the eight academic specialized schools in New York City — “six years from now there will be no…
London mayor Boris Johnson had kind of a rough weekend. If you are someone who feels like, “Who is that and why should I care?” I would not normally disagree with you, except that the man is remarkably entertaining and you would definitely enjoy knowing more about him.
“Research by a French academic to be delivered to the Royal Economic Society suggests that the country’s citizens are ‘taught’ to be miserable by elements of their own culture…
Don’t go outside. Ever. More.
“Anthony Lewis, a former New York Times reporter and columnist whose work won two Pulitzer Prizes and transformed American legal journalism, died on Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.” Lewis, whose book Gideon’s Trumpet “concerned Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 decision…
“A school has banned triangular flapjacks on health and safety grounds after a pupil was hit in the eye by one during a lunch-time food fight. Dinner ladies at the comprehensive school were told to cut flapjacks into squares or rectangles only from now on…
Snow, snow and more snow! And that’s just the voice-over. “This is winter’s last blast of the year,” says the reporter. “Or maybe not.” It really makes you think.
Right now a bunch of Republican fundraisers are telling their kids to be more gay.
“We as a nation have to start talking about the prospects for nuclear war.”
