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...but to be - or, at age 11 or so, to read the charming adventures centred round - a plucky "Renaissance Pig" named Freddy  was very hog Heaven. No literary episode of my adult life makes me happier in the beholding than the ongoing reissue by the Overlook division of Penguin of the 26 long-out-of-print Freddy novels (1927-1958) by Walter R. Brooks  (1886-1958), and to learn that many a leading writer once shared my pork-rinding rhapsodies from days of mine and also yore: Wikipedia : Despite their popularity in the 1940s and 1950s, the books went out of print in the 1960s, although children's libraries continued to have them. In the past decade they have been republished by Overlook Press, in response to plaintive requests from Freddy fans who treasure their combination of ingenious plots, well-drawn characters, literary allusions, and wholesome (but not cloying) moral lessons.  Adam Hochschild , writing in The New York Times Book Review , describes the series as "t...

  Say, I rather like the cut of that there writer's jib.

San Diego fireworks fail: Fourth of July display accidentally launches all at once 1 users liked this comment Rate a Thumb Up Rate a Thumb Down 0 users disliked this comment Scott    •   North Berwick, Maine   •    5 mins ago "Fourth of July display accidentally launches all at once" Sounds like my wedding night ... Pitt signs a kicker with the unfortunate last name of ‘Blewitt’ 2 users liked this comment Rate a Thumb Up Rate a Thumb Down 2 users disliked this comment Scott    •   North Berwick, Maine   •    1 hour 4 minutes ago Then there was Pepe Johnson, former Army sergeant discharged under Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Alabama pastor holds ‘whites only’ conference 0 users liked this comment Thumbs Up Thumbs Down 3 users disliked this comment Scott    •    North Berwick, Maine    •    1 hr 30 mins ago You've got too white for your party to fight

Why People Still Watch 'The Andy Griffith Show' Now as when it first aired, the series is a refuge from modern life, not a reflection of it. Hampton Stevens Scott Lahti   "People in rural America were getting TV for the first time, and Andy was meant to tap that audience" Juggular young women in Daisy Dukes and polka-dot blouses knotted between their cream silos just so? Well, doggies - dang straight, I'd tap that audience! With a top-off tap or two to handle my... residuals.

C ommenter Mikelawyr22 at TNR, beneath a post by Isaac Chotiner on Conrad Black's 4th of July kiss with tongues for white colonialism at - stop press!  - NRO: Conservatives are ultimately result-oriented. Their lip service to "liberty" is pure bs. They'd enslave 90% of the world in exchange for, say, a concealed carry law, a personhood amendment, and a third round draft pick. That's how jerks like Conrad Black (and John Derbyshire, and Ann Coulter, and Robert Weissberg, and . . . ) get to write on that site until, like Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove, they can no longer keep their right arms down. And that's our Phascist Phile Phor the Phiphth.  And hey - it's hot out there: don't forget the sunscreen for your pith helmet - they don't tan, they Black, Conrad.  "After all we've done you for, and you still want us gone? Why, I've never seen such négritude !"

Many Americans still without power on Independence Day