Skid Row Street If you didn't hear, Sesame Street has a new muppet: Lily. Her niche? Poverty. Her "family faces an ongoing struggle with hunger issues." Link [http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/04/sesame-street-hunger-muppet-photo/]. The goal is to raise awareness of

Manners I learned yesterday in Richard Brookhiser's biography of George Washington that he relied heavily on a 16th-century Jesuit text of manners. Washington transcribed the book as a teenager and kept it with him the rest of his life. I believe I have located the little book,

“Yum! Brands and other companies who own fast-food restaurants are heavily lobbying the administration to allow their franchisees to take food stamps instead of cash,” writes a reader looking at the issue from a different angle. “That should ensure we have a never-ending supply of obese diabetics with

I'm Walk(er)ing to New Orleans The Walker Percy Center's Inaugural Conference is October 14-16 [http://scrutinies.net/2011/09/come-moviegoing-with-me.html]. It's kind of late notice, but I'd really like to go. Unfortunately, it's