She was an incredible talent.

It's limited to 100 copies and is sold out at the publisher, but you should be able to find copies on the secondhand market, and of course there's a trade paperback available, too.

Harris won Minnesota by over 50%. Minnesotans did their part.

ugh x 1000

They have, but for the sake of my sanity, I have decided to move on to other projects.

...and that they canceled the series before the third and final volume was commissioned.

I get one, maybe two of these fan emails a year. Hardly a groundswell, but it's always nice to hear that people liked the books, even if they didn't hit it big.

I think "Purple Rain" renders everyone immobile.

Forty years ago. So much has happened in that time, including other, even bigger national tragedies, but this one stayed with me, as it has for so many of my generation. An unforgettable shock we all felt at a young age.

There was an extra layer of tragedy involved because a civilian had joined the flight crew: Christa McAuliffe, a teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, who was selected from more than 11,000 applicants for NASA's Teacher in Space Project.

It was almost impossible to process that the fault lay with something as small as an O-ring seal in one of the Solid Rocket Boosters. NASA and manufacturer Morton Thiokol allegedly knew of the defect and disregarded warnings.

Yeah, I don't think this is going to have the negative effect he thinks it is.

A good illustration of this comes from the Holocaust itself: it was illegal to hide Jews from the Gestapo, and required by law to hand them over for deportation to the concentration camps.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is also a good time to remind folks that the law often has very little to do with right and wrong. The law is simply what is allowed and what is not.

Schumer is very concerned about losing the votes of people who won't vote for Democrats anyway.