26 Mar 2005, 11:23 a.m.

Fun-To-Say Word Of The Moment

Atavistic! This follows Thursday evening's word, hamentashen.

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26 Mar 2005, 11:21 a.m.

D-D-D-Doctor House in the House!

I originally started watching Fox's medical drama House because it stars Hugh Laurie, better known to American audiences as Bertie Wooster in the TV adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories. Now I watch …

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25 Mar 2005, 7:49 a.m.

Cole Porter, Genius

Did Malcolm X get his "Plymouth Rock landed on us!" line from the eponymous song of Anything Goes? The line in that song that interchanges wrong and right and day and night reminds me of …

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24 Mar 2005, 19:41 p.m.

I New York Kind, I Delaware

I sit in my room and listen to the cover of "Black Hole Sun" on The Moog Cookbook (think rockin', yet Muzak) while composing a review of Good Catholic Girls by Angela Bonavoglia. This morning …

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24 Mar 2005, 13:40 p.m.

Happy Purim!

I hope those of you who celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim have a good time. I remember evincing amazement when my freshman-year roommate told me she was supposed to booze till she didn't know …

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24 Mar 2005, 13:33 p.m.

Take Care

San Francisco Chronicle readers and a Salon editor tell their stories of continuing or ending extraordinary care for family members during severe illnesses. I cried. Death may be slow and gradual for me or it …

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24 Mar 2005, 13:14 p.m.

No

Is there a television show that balances trash and wit more perfectly than House? No, there is not.

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22 Mar 2005, 10:14 a.m.

We All Fall Down

"A woman's battle for the soul of Islam" and "A 'virtuous pagan' looks at the priesthood" make it seem that every week Salon interviews an interesting woman who's thinking about Abrahamic (Judeo-Christian-Muslim) faith. I think …

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21 Mar 2005, 15:09 p.m.

Fannishness

Eeeee! Aishwarya Rai in Oakland!

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21 Mar 2005, 14:50 p.m.

Frist Post

Leonard and I used to think Bill Frist was a curiosity, and I once flipped through his disaster-prep how-to book, When Every Moment Counts: What You Need to Know About Bioterrorism from the Senate's Only …

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