Nellie Blog

Close encounter of the Bullwinkle kind So now I've seen my second Maine moose , and this time it was up close and personal. Last Februar...

Oh dear. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley on ABC's "This Week" Hopefully, in about nine months, we'll have a new c...

It's not a bird! It's not a plane! It's a Flogo! Some strange things come across my desk. Here's one of the strangest . As n...

Deprogramming Teddies (This article first appeared in Boulder Monthly in September, 1979. I was their humor columnist for about a year.) You...

Lessons that last, and that matter I covered a school board meeting this past week at the more rural of our two major districts. They're...

" Now I ain't so sure I wanna get educated" Angry truth So Barack Obama made a great speech . I've linked it here from his...

"Many fear that we will descend into a situation in which it is open season on people with no pants on and that, as a result, streakin...

Clinton settles on runningmate "He's the kind of guy I'm comfortable with," candidate declares.

The death of civil disagreement I don't have much to say about William F. Buckley, Jr., except that his death happens to come at a momen...

A Day at the Races I went up to Oquossoc today to cover the dog sled races. Oquossoc is a little town just the other side of Rangeley, and ...

Free comics from 1950 One of our papers, The Livermore Falls Advertiser, has a weekly feature called "This Week" in which the news...

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Having mentioned how the dogs don't mind stomping out their yard after each storm, an extreme example of how kibble is more important th...

A courageous stand against racism WHITE HOUSE (AP) -- President Bush says recent displays of nooses are disturbing, and show that some Amer...

Remember last spring? This picture was taken last April, when I gave up trying to use this door, after it kept getting swamped by falling ...

Quick learner Six weeks ago, the young man driving this sled had never seen snow. He's the son of the editor I hired for our weekly pape...

Learning from the best Jeff Danziger explains his work and cartooning in general. I was running late and never should have clicked on this -...

Here's a baby polar bear, being raised by hand at a German zoo. Recently, I've been kind of missing Howard, my old buddy , who is, n...

And now, a moment of contemptible twaddle with Andy Rooney America's favorite senile uncle embarrasses the family.

So long, cousin Oscar Always liked sharing a last name with him. He was an okay piano player , too, and, for all his solo talent, he didn...