Justice Department announced that the president and founder of Happy’s Pizza, Happy Asker, had been convicted in a multi-million dollar tax fraud scheme defrauding the IRS of more than $6.2 million dollars. [read post]

Some are obvious, like the "best question in a workshop" event where each school nominates its best question asker and in a series of preliminary rounds these question askers compete against each other to ask the most elegant, most insightful, most deliriously delicious question of some random paper presenter (judged by a panel of 3 or 10 other profs who award points to each question asker on squares of paper like in ice skating in the old days), and then the… [read post]

The question-asker is Steve Almond. [read post]

What is the difference between a “thin pretext” and a valid request, other than whether the asker is Philip Roth or his shrewish, sinus-clogged wife? [read post]