Purveyor of Iniquities

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It is no surprise that those most obsessive about waste reduction tend to be pensioners

These differences also reinforce different norms and values—different ideas of what it means to live a good life. Real estate may be as important as religion in explaining the infamous gap between red and blue states.

Here’s our list of bars and restaurants who serve cask-conditioned ale.

Rather than profess his innocence, he appeared to have requested the trial by jury in order to revel quietly in an accounting of his crimes. Last week, he compared his first murder to “first love.”

The question is distracting, which is why it never really emerges in the books themselves. Ms. Rowling may think of Dumbledore as gay, but there is no reason why anyone else should.

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a moving, very detailed, highly informative article about Ted Williams and his life, times, and final moments in Fenway Park.

As the British music critic Kenneth Ansell observed in the mid-’90s, while jazz greats like Count Basie and Charlie Parker admired Moondog’s idiosyncratic forays into their world, “the classical orthodoxy has not rushed to embrace him.”

Why did they make only two good records? What was with their lyrics, titles and visual symbols? Why Austin? What did the San Francisco hippies think of them? What was up with the guy in the band who played the electric jug?