Erin McKean invited submissions of neologisms in her last column in the IHT. We reply: Dear Erin, in your IHT column, you invited the subm...

Captcha from Gabrielle de Vietri on Vimeo . (Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan)

The washed-up scriptwriter sends this clip, and asks the question ""fact or fiction?": And here's the transcri...

Remember our not-so-prescient words from a recent post : "And the press of the Free World is eating this up as if it were Yorkshire p...

Philipp Hildebrand, the CEO of the Swiss National Bank ,  had traded on the foreign exchange markets a few days before his bank had forced a...

Circus cat, secretly rehearsing Hamlet Update: He lived nearby, actually, in Draguignan (north of St. Tropez), where the headquarters of...

And while we are at it, lets reminisce: We are driving across the US, as usual, have spent the previous night in a hotel in Wyoming where ...

(We performed it on Christmas eve 1985 during our visiting stint at the Rockefeller College, SUNY, Albany to rave reviews from a disorient...

The "urban word" of today, Computer , is defined as a "machine for downloading porn." And, by sheer coincidence, Vi...

A married couple has been out Christmas shopping at the mall most of the afternoon, when she suddenly realizes that her husband has “disappe...

Dirk sends this... ...and writes: "This has been around for a while but still. As the story goes, the guy that owns this house live...

James Saft , the Reuters' columnist, has a piece in the IHT about a talk by Andrew Haldane , the executive director for financial stab...

Rapture had been scheduled for May 21, and was then rescheduled for Oct 21 (an error in the calculations). Yesterday, folks. And we missed i...

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Act II. Somewhere in 1978 or 79, the Amsterdam department store De Bijenkorff opened a new sales corner on its 4th floor, mysteriously name...