Let's try a different format for what I wanted to do: "Call me IshMohel." That works, so I think your href tag format in the box labeled "You ma...

It would have been nice if there had been a Preview Post capability.

I screwed that up. I intended to write "Call me IshMohel" with "Mohel" linked to the Wikipedia page that defines the term, for those not familiar. The...

Martha's reading of Moby-Dick on the Kindle reminds me of the time on NPR's news quiz Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! when one of the answers was that Arist...

In re: aptronyms, the discussion reminded me of the best name for a woman with one leg a bit shorter than the other: Eileen. Unless, of course, she's ...

Lee said: Ima and Ura Hogg were always among my favorites. Ima Hogg was a very real person, quite important in the history of Houston. My fa...