Folie A Deux

Many years ago, maybe 7 or so, Matt made us a website called Folie a deux. The website was kind of a dud, but it subsequently morphed over into this (mildly) successful family and friends-type blog in 2006. We chose the name Folie a deux because I learned about it in psychiatry class and the [...]

Clayton California budding entrepreneurs Katie and Sabrina Lewis, 11 and 3 respectively, recently had their produce stand shuttered by local police. The pair were selling spare vegetables from their family garden on the corner sidewalk, as I’m sure you’ve seen kids do with lemonade and so forth. After the local news got wind of the [...]

Today, a New York federal appeals court told the FCC to pound sand. Fox Broadcasting, among others, took legal issue with the FCC ability to fine them over impromptu coarse language in live broadcasts. For his part Michael J. Copps, FCC commissioner, grunted out a few soft-headed protests, and so doing has made the distinguished [...]

From New Republic’s Michael Crowley on Bob Shrum’s (former Edwards’ advisor) new memoir of presidential wanna-be, John Edwards. Kerry had qualms about Edwards from the start, Shrum writes, but grew “even queasier about Edwards after they met. Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he’d never told anyone [...]

I know, I know. Another already? Well, I’ve got the award stamp made, and there really are going to be a lot of these; asshats abound. So, the NFL. Worried that too many people would see their precious superbowl all in a single room, they issued a press statement warning that anyone showing the superbowl [...]