Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

I guess if you had to label me anything (though why you'd want to is beyond me), I'm an atheist. But I still love Christmas. That...

For reasons known only to him, Tucker Carlson has put together a video of Rachel Maddow repeatedly saying "vagina." Living proo...

Marine Brandon Morgan welcomed home by his boyfriend

From today's San Francisco Chronicle : When Mike Wood's 3-year-old son was having trouble associating sounds with letters, he bui...

I considered giving the title of this post in French, which Google Translate tells me would be pensées sous la douche , but I thought bette...

Forty-seven years ago today, I was walking into Harvard Yard on my way to Widener to work on some paper or other when two undergraduates ran...

Dan Savage responds to a "Christian":   Being told that they're sinful and that their love offends God, and being told that ...

Is there a more 21st-century-American name than Travis Ishikawa?

I'm going to start a new religion. All the other ones are too sure of themselves for me. (Well, maybe not the Unitarians or the Buddhist...

Geoffrey K. Pullum finds an anachronism:  Sticking a label on a manila file of household papers this morning I noticed that the instruction...

Jonah Lehrer on why powerful people are S.O.B.s: The UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner has found that, in many social situations, peo...

White House Says Bears Part Of Blame For Senate Loss --Reuters headline Language Log » An ursine crash blossom

The Onion sounds the alarm: "Lost" is coming! Final Season Of 'Lost' Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever

So it seems that we're pronouncing "Haiti" wrong. Or are we? Language Log » Hatey?

First period : That's a Chair, This Is Your Scratching Post Nap Second period : Where Are My Socks? They Were Here on the Bed a Moment...

I have mixed feelings about this, a three-dimensional exploration of Picasso's "Guernica." On the one hand, it draws attention...

Michael Bérubé beautifully takes down Benjamin Schwarz's critique of "Mad Men." There really should be a name for this kind of...

It's not the flu, swine or otherwise. I know from flu. I think it's a head cold, but whatever it is, it has me slugging around the h...