All about me

Among the pieces of advice for somone who wants to know if a real conservative and a real liberal can be friends:

Have you been getting feweer Christmas cards each year? It's a trend I've certainly noticed:

Last week I tried to make the point that PolitiFact was wrong to label as lies what are really useful phrases of political shorthand to signal passionately held differences of opinion:

Ah, who doesn't have fond memories of partying on the bar circuit till 2 a.m., then topping off the night at a greasy spoon for burgers and fries before stumbling home to get sick and wake up with a hangover? Now, we can do it all in just one place!

The White Castle hamburger chain is sipping on the idea of selling alcoholic beverages at its restaurants.

Sadly, I was not invited:

An all-star list of progressive and liberal media folks came to the White House today to chat with President Obama over coffee in the Roosevelt Room.

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The Associated Press has come out with its top 10 news stories of 2011, based as usual on a poll of U.S. editors and news directors. Do you agree with No. 1?

I just took the Myers-Briggs typology quiz again for the first time in several years. I'm an INTJ, in case you want to know -- Introverted-Intuitive-Thinking-Judging. I'm practicallly off the scale on "introverted," though, which is no big surprise to me, and I barely register on "Judging," which might surprise some of you. According to the scoring, that makes me a "Mastermind," a description I rather like; who wouldn't? This is supposedly me:

For Amazon, lavish praise. For bookstores, not so much:

Purdue University did a driving-accident study, and all I can say is, "Look out, boys and girls, I'm coming your way, and I'm in a dangerous mood."

Nyah, nyah, nyah. Told you so, told you so: