A Commonplace Book

While Mitt Romney's remarks at a fundraiser in Jerusalem on July 30th were not his finest hour, they do raise an interesting question ab...

If you have a monarchy willing to airdrop a stunt queen from a helicopter at the Olympics because it's funny, then you've got a pre...

....that is Britain. The 2012 Olympic opening ceremonies brilliantly followed the old vaudeville rule: never follow a banjo act with another...

Lower Rhine Master, Love Magic 1470-1480 Hugo and Jan van Eyck, Eve, The Ghent Altarpiece 1425-1432 Small breasts and a rounded belly. I...

She led an admirable life. The first female astronaut, she could have lived on that fame for a lifetime. She did not. She gave good service ...

The Fall of Adam Hugo van der Goes Henri de Mondeville wrote in his Cyrurgia (1306-1320) Et aliquae mulieres non potentes aut non audentes...

Four 15th century bras were excavated at Lengberg castle in the East Tyrol in 2008. All had shaped cups, and one was strikingly modern in ...

Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That's right, Dark Knig...

Joy.

This made me laugh. In which the Gotye parody's former high school teacher becomes justifiably annoyed. And naked. When I was in hig...