Achenblog - The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach on whatever strikes his fancy - August 23, 2009

The Kennedy Brothers At Arlington

[I've been on Kennedy duty today. Here's what I wrote up for tomorrow morning's newspaper. Your thoughts are most welcome.] They buried Ted Kennedy on Saturday in an area of lush grass on the gentle slope beneath the mansion...

A Small Gesture

As you get older you realize that what people will remember about your life are the small gestures. The things you did when hardly anyone was looking. The biography is not a resume: You could win every award on...

Kennedy, Obama and the Passion Gap

Senator Kennedy's passing, and the resultant outpouring of emotion -- including the venom from online commenters who accuse Kennedy of everything up to and including the faking of the moon landing -- is a reminder of the role of...

Teddy Kennedy

Another day, another death, another reason to feel a lot older. Teddy Kennedy used to be the young one. The baby of his generation. He had three older brothers, yet through one tragedy after another found himself the patriarch...

Michael Jackson's Chemistry Experiment

Last night on CNN, Sanjay Gupta showed how the administration of propofal can almost instantly shut down a patient's breathing. What kind of doctor administers it in the home and then wanders off to the loo? On the day...

My Lost Decade

I realized this morning that it was exactly 10 years ago today that I started writing for the Web. I was hardly a pioneer online -- folks such as Mickey Kaus, and everyone at Slate, were writing online-only material...