Conservative ‘Race War’ Meme
The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.
Santorum Admits He Cannot Win The Nomination Without A Brokered Convention
Rick Santorum’s campaign is starting to tilt at windmills.
Nerdiest Correction Ever
An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)
