The Dallas Morning News has a number of articles under the search term 'budget reds,' latest here. The Wall Street recently had a cheap wine review and recommended the Concha Y Terrra Sauvignon Blanc.

Misspelled street names are the subject of this Dallas Morning News article which has a couple of good comments, the ones on Champ Ulysses and Ruidosa were good.

Linked (about comment 40) to a success of the county hospital, Parkland, in a discussion of health care policy.

Megan McArdle is getting married to a Peter Suderman. Seems appropriate in light of her appreciation for a porcelain factory founded by Peter the Great. She had a blog post once about when her readers got in her blog orbit. I mentioned the Bolshevik dinnerware which drew a snort from someone. I was determined to find it and, finally, on this search page, I did.

Following (currently 79 comments, the last mine) a discussion of MJ and the responsibility of doctors.

Following a string of obsessions by Ron Rosenbaum covering the topics of President Obama, Iran (lately as interfered with by the MJ story).

Following Rogue Cancer Unit at a VA hospital (57 comments now). Ann, in a comment at the end just nails the issue.

"It's always darkest just before it goes pitch-black," Tom Maguire says.

Miss prints has a royal history. From Stalin and His Hangmen, 'misprints had been disingenuously used to annoy authority. Queen Victoria was reported to have "pissed" over Waterloo Bridge. Substituting one consonant made Stalin "pisser" or "shitter" (ssalin, sralin). Stalingrad coould be set to read "Stalin is a reptile" (Stalin gad). Under Stalin, misprints were declared "sorties by the class enemy." Writers or typesetters could die for one misplaced letter, as Andrei Tarkovsjy's film Mirror unforgettably suggests.' This came up in Obama 'confronting a delicate topic.'