From a teacher:
Dear Sars,
Today I walked into my classroom at East Valley High School. Iwas still missing a desk, which means I have two students, A and R,who are squished at one. The floor still …

O happy day: Kenley didn’t win, and we’ve hit $60,000! $60,570 at this writing, actually.
That is some excellent work right there, my friends.   Thank you all so much.   And extra-special tangoing-tomato thanks to …

Hi Sars,
This one is short and sweet. What do you think of housewarming registries? Useful or tacky? I’d never heard of them until recently, when I saw someone announce on their blog that they were …

The first installment of a mini-movie series about the works of Oliver Stone is now live at the Museum of the Moving Image website.   Co-produced by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz, the …

Donors Choose took second prize in the AmEx Members Project, picking up a cool half a million dollars — thanks so much to everyone who voted!
As of this writing: 53K and change with just over …

I appeared on the show this morning to talk baseball; the archived version is here.   I fear that having to get up at 5 AM may have gotten the best of me in the …

As of this writing, $50,829.
In 11 days, 631 of you have raised more than fifty thousand dollars to help 7,660 students (at least; many of you have donated off-challenge as well).   Just let that …

It’s the weekend.   I’ll be engaging in the weekendiest of activities — going to a wedding — but I’ve found a few other weekend-activity-ish projects you may care to donate to in the meantime: …

Hi Sars,
I’m hoping you and/or the readers can help me find a book I read in college.I can’t remember the title or the author, but I do remember some of the plot.
It starts with …

As of right now, almost 7,000 students reached, and $47,500 and change.   $ and the Mysterians have done their work; we’re very close to the initial goal and almost halfway to Washingtomato.
Thank you so …