The Hall of Fire

But plenty of people on the left were saying similar things, especially if they were Clinton supporters. And I don't think they were necessarily off base. I don't think that is true, Prim. The vast majority of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party supported Obama over Clinton, and many were ...

I think Krugman has a lot of good things to say, and his ideas are worth listening to (among others). I also think that he is very full of himself. It's interesting that no one seems to remember just how insulting and dismissive he was about Obama (and those of us who were early supporters of Obama)...

I think Krugman is just a bit too full of himself to be taken too seriously.

I heard in an interview this morning, that Christina, the subject of the above painting, suffered from polio and literally was crawling across the farm. Definitely a very moving portrait of the human condition.

I'm sure you probably figured out that there was a missing "not" in my post.

But it does give us all the opportunity to act all superior.

No, don't. But that shouldn't stop you from vigorously correcting him (I'm assuming that this is a "him"; it sure sounds like it ). After all, we don't want crackpot theories (or worse, the views of David Day) to go uncontested in a public forum.

Michael Drout, editor of the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment and Beowulf and the Critics, and co-editor of Tolkien Studies, and one of the more highly regarded Tolkien scholars is described as "this professor"? At a site that at least pretends to focus on T...

Shiny Grand Rapids furniture? :scratch: :rofl: This is a scene of comfort, homely, domestic comfort, with hobbits eating their comfort food ("half an hour's steady going, without unnecessary interruptions.") It is, of course, the Hobbits last good meal until they reach Rivendell, almost a ...

This chapter begins with a long, matter-of-fact description of Bree and the surrounding Bree-land, complete with a bit of the history of its big and little people. It seems to me that this is the first real introduction of Frodo and his companions to the outside world. The Old Forest, Tom's house, a...

What nonsense! First of all, Beren never "changed to beast form." He simply was (by the arts of Lúthien) "arrayed now in the hame of Draugluin." Then, after Lúthien put Morgoth to sleep, Beren "cast aside the wolf-hame." To suggest that that is indication that he was th...

Exciting, but scary. Good luck, elsha!

Probably not.

I didn't get one. And I donated more than $40. But then, I didn't ask for one, either.

There are also dinners that will take place on Monday night which Obama will honor three men for their efforts at reaching across party lines: Colin Powell, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, and the man Obama defeated for the presidency, Senator John McCain. Obama to host dinners honoring Powell, Bide...

First of all, the new administration has already announced that they are keeping the existing White House chef, Cristeta Comerford.

Secondly, is it really necessary to start a thread about this here in Lasto? You really don't need to start a new thread about every new topic that pops into your head.

Here is one prominent Washington insider's take on the inauguration: "I have the same feeling that I think many Americans have, that it's really remarkable that -- what we're going to do here in a few days is swear in the first African American president of the United States. When I came to tow...

Thanks, Frelga. I keep meaning to bump this thread to mention that Attorney General Jerry Brown essentially switched sides, and instead defending Prop 8 filed a brief making an alternative argument in favor of overturning the same-sex marriage ban to the one made by the initial opponents of Prop 8. ...

That's what you say now, my dear Di.