12, I will admit. But my background is in English, so....

Hey, let's see a grammar quiz.

I think what bothers me the most is the desecration of the author's original work. I googled Scarry and found that he died in  1994. I'm assuming, though I could be wrong, that the books were changed after this. Would/did he approve of the changes? Does a publisher have the right to do this to a creative work without the creator's approval?

I thought it was outrageous a couple years ago when there was a lot of talk about "editing" The Adventuresof Huckleberry Finn to excise parts that offend modern readers. Maybe next we can fix the works of George Orwell and Ayn Rand so they no longer have those objectionable bits about governmental overexuberance.

Owen Wilson.

(And someone listed Philip Seymour Hoffman? Seriously?)

You forgot earthquakes.

Am I really the first to suggest Will Ferrell?

Santorum? Huckabee? Perry? I say they're not quite ready yet. Maybe the number 2 slot, with Bob Dole at the top of the ticket.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!"

Played in my regular weekly poker game. Minnesota Wild game on TV in the background.

Forgot I was wearing that shirt! That's a bonus.

We caught this little fellers. Fun day!

Surprised Flight was not a best pic nominee. Also, nothing for John Goodman.

As I stated a while back in a post-election secession discussion here on Ricochet: If we do secede, we have a great advantage. We already have a constitution.

We keep ours, and let Bluestatopia dredge theirs away to their hearts' content.

And those children seem really frightened of that rifle, too, don't they?

Speaking of George Will, he also had a book out for some time (not sure if it is still available) called Bunts, which is a collection of his shorter published pieces on baseball. Very good reading.

Too much besmirching and disgorging going on in politics these days.