What we can say at this point

John Scalzi talks sense about the Arizona shootings.

Nifty idea

Online game teaches citation skills.

Thanx to laughingrat

Another good one gone

B.H. Friedman 1926-2011. I enjoyed his Sixties novel Yarborough.

Carlton Chester Gilchrist (1935-2011)

Cookie Gilchrist was a great running back, but he did something even better. In 1965 the American Football League was going to play its all-star game in New Orleans, but Gilchrist led a boycott because of the way the black players were being treated there, and the league had to move the game.