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Well done I do a lot of carping over stupid, derivative, obvious images. This cartoon by David Simmons of the Arizona Daily Star is an examp...

Quote of the week: I don't know who Jon and Kate are, and I pray to God I never learn. -- Peter King, Sports Illustrated

Mythology at Weekly Storybook Should have mentioned this last week, but Weekly Storybook is now featuring a series of Greek and Roman myths...

They say that being unemployed is a full-time job, but the fact is, after you've checked in with unemployment, run through a number of o...

Early wisdom I'm getting ready to move and going through a lot of boxes, as part of which I came across this 1976 Doonesbury that once a...

And now this commentary ... Emily Litella: What's all this I hear about our government resettling wiggers in Palau? Why on earth do we...

"It's not like it's dead, and it's not like it only belonged here." Twenty years ago, I interviewed Arlo Guthrie for ...

I'm gonna miss this view Not sure how long I'll be looking at this. Lease runs out at the end of the month. Without a plan, I'll...

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and o...

Parçalı Bulutlu with a chance of Yağmur For some reason, weather.com decided to publish the details of the weather forecast in a language...

The other shoe has dropped Well, eight weeks after I was told my time at the paper was ending, the boss finally came by Friday and pulled th...

When did empathy become a bad thing? Senator: "I'd like to ask you why you want this job?" SUPREME COURT NOMINEE THOMAS: ...

Our hearts were touched by fire Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., delivered Memorial Day, 1884, at John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Rep...

Semper Paratus “Sometimes the public recognition isn’t always expected – or necessarily welcomed. Specialist Zachary Boyd recently was enjoy...

Comedy isn't pretty A number of years ago, I was invited to speak to a college writing class on the topic of freelancing. I brought alon...

Update I still seem to be employed. At least, I keep showing up and doing the work and they keep paying me. Nothin' much more to report...

Goodbye to a good friend Nobody loved kids more than Destry. When I was at the Post-Star in Glens Falls, part of my job was giving tours of ...

The Fairy Wife This is one of my favorite stories of the series, a bittersweet tale of the impossible marriage between mortal and immortal. ...