Compelling and horrifying story. I knew a lot of this but not all. I’m distantly related to the man (we share the same last name, and he’s something like my 12th cousin, according to an old genealogy book). William Keith Kellogg, his brother, seemed much less crazy.

Exactly. FourStudies has a valid point but undermines it with extra dickishness.

Sorry, Rachel, but FourStudies has a valid point. Simply saying “ewww” — which is what your response amounts to, in an extended dismissal of a work for its “creepiness” — validates other unreflective responses not just to this but basically to the whole of visual art over the last century. Consider: “I would never buy…

This needs to be done for all three plotlines in Pulp Fiction.

FYI, works on an older generation iPad as well (iPad2 in my case).

He has to dictate because his stubby fingers can’t reach the whole keyboard.

“Hundreds of years ago, our worldview changed forever when we discovered the Earth is round.”

Peter North levels.

This story is great, but it’s missing one key word: oleaginous.

Yes, I meant he was 3 inches shorter. Bit of a brain fart, that.

I always liked Muggsy. He played at Wake Forest when I went there, back when people still called him Tyrone. Incredibly exciting to watch. I don’t think he ever graduated. I’m a short guy (5'6"), but he’s still 3 inches taller than me. I used to see him a lot around the “Snack Pit” (what was WFU’s fast food grill). As…

My read: Muslim kid in notoriously Islamophobic Texas hellhole trolls teacher with shitty clock that looks vaguely like — not a real bomb, but a bomb from a bad movie starring maybe Steven Segal. Teacher takes the bait, town authorities predictably follow, media frenzy ensues, kid moves with family to Qatar…

It’s not “I’m farting carrots”?

Jimmy Carter watched “Three Days of the Condor” the night of October 28, 1977 and the next morning (see http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/documents/diar…). What’s that about?

The Sneetches and Other Stories is awesome, like Seuss making up for his racist wartime propaganda.

Bartholomew and the Oobleck is great Seuss. Just weird and awesome.

Anybody else think this scene from Bob Roberts would fit in well at the JennerDashian household?

5:24 in the video. Picture behind Belle Gibson of Bob Dylan circa 1965. Should this make me think more of Belle or less of Dylan?

What’s the relationship between the Fairfax County police and the local fire departments? Are any public safety folks other than police implicated in this?