Why the Internet was created: to have things like the Samuel Johnson quotes page:
http://www.samueljohnson.com/topics.html

Seen at the San Diego U-Trib: Ms. Record, accountant; Dr. Fish, oceanographer, and other nominal coincidences. Also, the best tagline for bobble-head dolls to date: "nod squad" (actually, chances are that's been used 147 times already):
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/features/strange/200205081-9999strange91.html
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/features/20020514-9999_mz1c14bobble.html

Det. Freep cartoonist Mike Thompson on the only good reason to slack off on your history:
http://www.freep.com/voices/cartoons/051202_mt_450.htm

Reading a lot about politics lately made me want to look up some info on logical fallacies. There's a complete scientific index at http://gncurtis.home.texas.net/, and a simpler one at http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm

Robin Williams politically incorrect stand-up tour, soon to hit San Diego, is due in part to the erstwhile threat of a Hollywood writers strike, says the U-Trib:
http://www.union-trib.com/news/features/20020514-9999_williams.html

Developers are brewing a possible new player on the Chicago skyline:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/hlife/cst-fin-real14.html

Clever Mother's Day Letterman Top Ten featuring maternal scoldings for Christina Aguilera, Jeff Gordon, and Dave himself:
http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/top_ten/archive/ls_topten_archive2002/ls_topten_20020510.shtml

Already the Star Wars reviews have been shifting from as-bad-as-Phantom-Menace to no-wait-it's-good-this-time (check out Richard Corliss in Time)--and Episode Two hasn't even opened yet. Count Star Wars fan James Lileks among the grumblers, though: "George Lucas writes dialogue duller than a preschooler's scissors...can't write, can't direct, can't pace. These would seem to be liabilities in a movie director."
http://www.startribune.com/stories/804/2831907.html
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020520/swreview.html

Good Time cover piece by Joel Stein, albeit overstated, on Spider-Man and movies as our only remaining national conversation:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020520/story.html

The balanced and insightful New Republic writer Jonathan Chaithas a provocative piece in Slate today, picking apart the conventional wisdom of the NY Times and others. "Palestinian terrorism does not result from Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza," he writes, "but from Israel's existence." I'm not sure I agree, but it's worth a read:
http://slate.msn.com//?id=2065703

When I spent last summer at Columbia U in New York, I was stunned to see the size of the mausoleum bearing the remains of Ulysses S. Grant, one of the most unremarkable presidents resting in one of the most remarkable monuments in the country--a mini Capitol rotunda bulging from the shores of Riverside Park. Now a new wave of deifying Grant is underway, part of a new wave of historical leadership mythology, says Chris Suellentrop in Slate:

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2065593