Stephen King
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."

Cindy Gardner
"What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds."

Robertson Davies
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."

Minna Thomas Antrim
"Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills."

Matthew Arnold
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

Logan Pearsall Smith
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own."

86
We examine the claim that the term '86' (get rid of someone or something) entered the language as part of a restaurant code.

French Dip
Culinary debate: Who invented the French dip sandwich?

Government Grants
Advertisements offer thousands of dollars of "free money" available in the form of government grants.

KEN SILVERSTEIN—Citibank Does Baghdad: Iraqis beware, you might just want to put your cash under the bed
From Spencer Ackerman: . . .

KEN SILVERSTEIN—Freeman Withdraws
Via Think Progress: . . .

SCOTT HORTON—Six Questions for Juan Cole, Author of Engaging the Muslim World
Juan Cole is one of the nation’s leading historians focusing on the Middle East. Over the past decade he has emerged as a commentator on Middle East policy and a reliable source for new ideas that may enable the United States to pursue its foreign policy objectives more effectively in the region. For millions, his frequent posts at the Informed Comment blog provide a daily update on press accounts from the Islamic world, often including translations from Arabic- and Farsi-language sources in close-to-real time. His new book, Engaging the Muslim World, will be published on March 17. . . .