The most common argument to support the legal defining of marriage as a union between a male and female is that of tradition. As marriage has always been characterized this way, so should it always be, claim its supporters. This argument assumes that a male and a female create the most stable union that society […]
What a bizarre season this has been. Virtually no frontrunners have emerg-ed, like, at all. (By contrast, Randal was clearly earmarked as the victor from the beginning last season.)
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Attention, pig lovers! Long an isolated mainstay way out on East Market Street, Jinx’s Pit’s Top is set to make an entrance on the Downtown scene. You may have noticed that the Downtown Mall kiosk has been bursting with flowers in recent weeks, thanks to the entrepreneurship of Betty Jo Dominick. Any day now, Jinx Kern will be supplying her with boxed barbecue lunches schlepped over from his tiny original location.
The pork will be tucked amongst the blooms during the noon hour, and also at dinnertime on Fridays After 5. For $6, says Jinx, you’ll get a barbecue sandwich, along with coleslaw and some cucumber saladâ”both of which we’re rather famous for,” he notes.
Jinx says this is the first toehold in a long-term plan for Downtown Jinxifica-tion. “I hope ultimately not just to be up there by proxy, but to have my own place on the Mall,” he says. We’ll lobby for seating when that day finally comes.
Tuesday, April 18USA Today digs “Idol”’s DaughtryFluvanna High graduate Chris Daughtry, who’s been filling the rock quotient on “American Idol,” Fox’s Tuesday night juggernaut (30 million viewers on average), ekes out the lead in USA Today’s “Idol” popularity contest today. But just barely. With 24 percent of the vote, the charismatic baldy with the tight […]
Tuesday, March 21 Super Bowl’s loss is wage-workers’ gain Approaching retirement from the big chair at Harper’s Magazine, patrician editor Lewis Lapham is interviewed in the Style section of today’s Washington Post. Perhaps best known for his sometimes impenetrable essays that lead off Harper’s each month, Lapham reveals his old-school method of assigning work to […]
Tuesday, March 7 “I knew Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine, and you, Senator, are no Ronald Reagan” Converted Democrat James Webb, who wants to give George Allen a bus ticket home from the U.S. Senate, has even broader goals, according to an Associated Press report today, saying he wants to defeat […]
Tuesday, February 14 Casteen, the Younger takes on accidental shootists Reid and Cheney Writing today on slate.com, John Casteen IV, a regular contributor to The Virginia Quarterly Review, enlists the recent shooting incidents of Vice President Dick “Fuck Yourself” Cheney and Virginia Delegate John “Invest in Kevlar” Reid to argue that Congress should act to […]