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Spellbound.

Love you thiiiiis much.

Foolish games.

The politics of love.

Mallowing out.

Conservative profiling.

“Some questions are more equal than others.”

Geek alert.

Na, na, na, nah-na-nah na…

Winter break.

…a warm batch of Christmas cookies.

Look it up.

Yum.

Spooktacular! Plus: Hagel dresses up as Biden. And the best Hillary costume of the night.

Say cheese.

I let my daughter stay up past her bedtime to watch the Scripps National Spelling Bee with me. Great show! Danville, Calif. speller Evan O’Dorney clinched the title with “serrefine.” Funny kid. He made a point in his victory interview of pooh-poohing the spelling bee in favor of his greater loves: music and math.
Our favorite [...]

After I taped The O’Reilly Factor in Washington on Friday night, the real fun began. John Ondrasik and Five For Fighting played at the 9:30 Club. He was kind enough to offer a few guest passes, which Bryan Preston and I gladly used to share a rare, kids-free night out with our spouses. What a [...]

Belated spring break report: While Smash, Blackfive, John Noonan, and Greyhawk held down the fort here last week–and kudos and thanks to all of them for their work–I was at play for a brief, but welcome, respite with my family here…

I took this photo in the lobby of the Nickelodeon Hotel. We stayed in a [...]

At Hot Air, we’ve been expanding programming and welcoming new faces and voices to the conservative videoblogging world. Our megawatt guest hosts Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall and Bethany of realVerse have garnered much buzz. Today, a new vlogging star is born. We are debuting a new weekly political comedy show from the brilliant Jeff [...]

LAFTA?

Calling all plain-speaking, fad-free teachers and other battlers against bad language: Joe Williams, guest-blogging at Eduwonk, has put together a list of pet educrat words and phrases for a new drinking game: Get out your blenders and drink up!
Hat tip: Kimberly Swygert, who notes her favorites: “Differentiated instruction,” “Self-directed learning” and “Higher order thinking.”
I’d add [...]

Who is it? The Discovery Channel wants you to vote.
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Reader feedback…
Jonathan in Jackson notes: “I find the Discovery channel greatest American thing quite interesting. Did you notice that B. Franklin “did”, MLK “did”, Lincoln “did”, and Washington “did”, but Reagan is “credited for doing”? They’re not even trying to hide it any more.”
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On the opposite [...]

This will make your day.

Did you know there’s a blogger who keeps tabs on Outrageous E-bay Auctions?
Hat tip: Ramblings’ Journal

It was the winning word at the National Spelling Bee.
More on the Bee winner, 13-year-old Anurag Kashyap (there’s a spelling challenge), here.
Spelling bee blogging…
Last Rick’s Resort y-a-w-n-s.
A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Agoliveblogged.
Spelling bee personal story…
I was a finalist at the Atlantic County, N.J., 8th grade spelling bee. We were down to a half-dozen [...]

…because you might end up in The Parade of Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes.
Warning: Beverage-spewing-inducing.

The Contagious Media Showdown is on.
My favorite entries:
Crying, while eating
Blogebrity
Delivr

What’s Arianna up to? Scott at SlantPoint snaps the pic. You do the rest.
Update: More (animated) fun with Huff from Dan Riehl.