Miscellaneous and Fast

Wack Job: Any listing of the 100 best film soundtracks that respectively ranks A Hard Day's Night and The Sound of Music in the top two posts has dubious standards.


Haven't we suffered enough? A reality show about rock stars who enjoy the "sport" of curling. [HT: Adfreak]

Resurrection: Why GM is smiling.

Lee Harris on free speech in Canada.

There goes the neighborhood: The nation's first baby boomer has received her first Social Security retirement benefit.

Loon season: An archbishop on sharia law in Britain.

Wild West: Preserving history in Tombstone.

Shifting standards: Richard S. Wheeler on popular versus literary fiction.