July 7, 2016
The Kangas of the World
My five-year-old daughter and I have been reading Winnie-the-Pooh this week. In the seventh chapter, the nativist Rabbit tries to drive out recent arrivals Kanga and Roo by kidnapping Roo […]
September 29, 2010
McGonagall Is Dead! Dead, Dead, Dead!
William McGonagall — “The Great McGonagall,” “Poet and Tragedian of Dundee” — died on this date in 1902. He was buried in a pauper’s grave — and now, more than […]