Wes Phillips

John Marks sends along this "respectful">http://www.elvispresleynews.com/JewishElvis.html">"respectful and perhaps link-worthy page on Elvis' Jewishness".

Thishttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/dining/19mini.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">…; is Mark Bittman's third collection of 101 no-hassle dishes. These aren't gimmicks—they're good food designed to be made in under 20 minutes (frequently much under), using foods you might have around the house. (Over the years, I've discovered that a little prep at the shopping stage guarantees that you'll have the ingredients to make good food fast.)

Back when I worked at the lower Broadway Tower Records, those crazy cut-ups in the Classical Annex culled the stupidest, most cheesecakey covers from the used bins and covered a wall-of-shame in the count-out room with them.

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Helen A. S. Popkin has written a fine opinion">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22251370/">opinion piece on the new, phenomenally wrong-headed Congressional Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP Act), which among other things (such as absurd penalties) includes a spanking new enforcement agency called WHIPER (White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative).

Andrew Ferguson has written a highway">http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2007-11/Interview.html">highway history of Abraham Lincoln. Among other observations, he points out that the man who "waged one of the most savage wars in our history" was definitely not non-judgmental.

Walker">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/boyinthemoon">Walker Brown was born 11 years ago with "an impossibly rare and random genetic mutation—cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome, a technical name for a mash of symptoms. He is globally delayed and can't speak, so I never know what's wrong. No one does."