Home sick for another day, I am reading a book called On Reading the Constitution by Lawrence Tribe, an author recommended to me by a NYC lawyer recommended to me by a now blogging former-classmate of his as well as a collection of essays on the founding of the USA called To Begin The World Anew …

While over in the States on the weekend, I picked up a copy of the Watertown Daily Times the excellent paper that is published out of our smaller neighbouring city in Jefferson Co., NY. As an artifact, it is especially interesting to read the "Northern New York" section on issues that are …

Rick Moranis - of SCVT, of Honey I Shrunk The Kids - has a surreal dream about hockey and talks about it in the New York Times.

Can any of the brethren from south of 49 recommend a decent text on US constitutional law? Not exactly one for dummies but one with a little historical context? I know Dean Dino is floating out there somewhere.

What will Victorian novelists do now that their best choice of uncious creep character is being taken away from them?  •  “Anglican priests may no longer have a "job for life" under proposals being considered by church leaders. The General Synod of the Church of England is set to discuss a move to …

Walter the Farting Dog  •  This book, by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, is the apex of a certain type of subversive kid's book that busts up our four and six year old. At the heart of its subversion, it makes Mom or Dad say "fart" about twenty-seven times before the light in the kids' room …

Is this the most trivial thing ever written upon in the New York Times or has there actually been an article on show laces and eyelets?

Last night was the first family giftie exhanges of the season and thems that sow shall also reap with the receipt by me of Tarts With Tops On by Tamasin Day-Lewis. I am the son of the best pastry maker on the planet, or at least my planet, trained as she was by my Cordon Bleu trained …

On the way out the door of #1's place yesterday, I was handed the entire Patrick O'Brian Jack Aubrey series of novels, as in the film Master and Commander. Am I doomed to late nights now? Will I wear I powdered wig by the time I am done them?