It’s a paper about Walt Whitman and you must see it to believe it. It’s so obnoxious that it comes all the way around to being brilliant. It’s so good, in fact, that I suspect it might be a hoax. Years ago, in a previous lifetime, I had the very bad luck to be teaching [...]

My latest Newsweek column is here.

Say a prayer. Wish him well. Honor the place where his soul and yours become one. Namaste.

This creepy old dame had her world-record fingernails broken off in a car crash. See the BBC report on it here. I don’t know where to begin.

My latest from Newsweek is here. Money quote: “While blogs can do many wonderful things, generating huge amounts of money isn’t one of them.”