Non-fiction meets science fiction today at Word Power Books as boffin-loving author Francis Spufford talks computers and socialism with fellow scribe Paul Cockshot.
Jack Daniel's, probably sensing the cynicism a-brewing among other journalists and bloggers, flew me and a bunch of my fellow scribes to Las Vegas.
Some people accused me of being "excessively quixotic" and even of harming my fellow scribes, since my refusal cast a shadow over the newspaper and thus prevented people more sensible than me from joining it.
A gifted conversationalist, he was that rare writer who befriended not only fellow scribes but presidents, actors, producers, professors, businessmen, sundry oddballs and dogs everywhere.
I don't in fact believe, as some of my fellow scribes do, that the process bequeaths us the best man or woman for the position, that it's tailored that way, and that what makes a great campaigner is what makes a great leader.
Conservative columnist George Will insisted that same day that Palin cannot win the presidency, a sentiment that fellow conservative scribe Charles Krauthammer agreed with in December.
Two of his fellow-scribes who came to visit him also acknowledged the presence of this strange phenomenon, and two women who borrowed his flat returned the key willingly the next morning.
A fellow vacationer drowns.
You're a fellow moderate.
("A fellow patriot," Scott said).
Excited for a fellow nominee.
