Backward Causality
We report, you decide.
Wes Phillips
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Mmmmmm, Bacon Salt
Because everything should taste like bacon.
Mee-Yow!
Alexis Petridis reviews Paris Hilton's debut record. "She sings like a woman who has heard of something called singing, can't be sure of exactly what it might entail, but is fairly certain you do something a bit like this."
The eBay Voldemort Confesses
Will Collier tells the tale behind that $250 pre-publication sale of the final Harry Potter volume.
Farewell, Comma, He Said
Robert J. Samuelson laments the lapsing of the comma.
Rational Voters?
Louis Menand's reviewhttp://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/07/09/070709crbo_books…; of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Politics is an interesting read—possibly more interesting than the book itself. However, back in 2004, Gene Weingarten covered the same questions, getting up close and personal with Ted Prus, a non-voter who "just doesn't give a rat's ass."
The Worst Of The South
The final article of The Oxford American's Best of the South issue is Hal Crowther's splenetic rant about the region's less savory characteristics.
Passchendaele In Color
Everybody knows WWI was in black and white.
Birds Don't Fly Fair
They bend the rules.
An Abridged Dictionary
Don't pick up that dictionary! You're smart enough to figure out what that new word means.