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  • Ken Jennings: Because I Said So!

    I'm second-guessing myself (sorry, it's been a couple of busy weeks since I read the book). Take a look at the table of contents first. I seem to recall a few teen-specific myths in there that may be ...

    Dec. 10, 2012 - 12:28 PM

  • Ken Jennings: Because I Said So!

    Pisses me right off that Scrabble won't accept "lede" as a word. Oh sure, "ut" is fine, but "lede"? Crazy.

    Dec. 10, 2012 - 10:42 AM

  • Ken Jennings: Because I Said So!

    I ran out of space before I could write about it, but Jennings does a little back-of-envelope math showing that a person consuming an average number of eggs may be exposed to an infected one every 80-odd years. You can ...

    Dec. 10, 2012 - 10:41 AM

  • Ken Jennings: Because I Said So!

    You know, they're going to be exposed to it, anyway. Might as well come from a kindly Jeopardy! winner.

    Dec. 10, 2012 - 10:36 AM

  • Ken Jennings: Because I Said So!

    Yeah, I'd say so.

    Dec. 10, 2012 - 10:19 AM

  • “Sozin’s Comet”

    Back atcha, Emily.

    April 18, 2012 - 10:24 PM

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Hayden Childs is the founder and occasional editor of The High Hat, an online culture 'zine that's rarely updated these days. He wrote a book for the 33 1/3 series on Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out The Lights album, which is one of the worst-selling books in the series. As one should refrain from feeding bears, so should one refrain from asking him a casual question about the movies of Sam Peckinpah.