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Interview with Elfego Baca (I was updating " Two Years Before the Mast " and needed to find pictures of well-off Mexicans, as the...

A bandoning the Creeping Meatball Having little to risk, and still less to be grateful for at their hands, I recently began the process o...

The Chamber of Commerce Express The upstairs bathroom in the rented home I'm sharing with my son and his family has wallpaper with a...

The story's written. I just need a quote. Wish I had a link to the video, but Houston Texans' Coach Gary Kubiak's final press...

My dad's work -- 1951   (That's me on the left)

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" like a puppy! Funniest card I've had in years, this comes from the breeder of several of my r...

I like John Tenniel, I like Clay Bennett, and I really like this cartoon.

What lead time does Hilary Price work with? I'd say, given this evidence , that Rhymes with Orange has a lead time of about four we...

My Hero! Why can't we have more compassionate, public-spirited guys like this in the Senate? For someone like me, laid off before I wa...

E&P folds after 125 years My past life as a business writer makes me believe in the tortoise, not the hare. I've seen people who ...

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A final thought, before the memories fade ... The morning after the murders at the Ecole Polytechnique , CHOM-FM's normally jocular m...

Little Murders (This column appeared in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, December 12, 1989) Every time I go to Montreal, I fall in...

Speaking of good hosts ... My main thing is that I'm blessed, and God has put me in a situation where I don't need for anythin...

Hilary Price, hostess extraordinaire Every year, Hilary Price, who draws the hilarious, insightful strip "Rhymes with Orange," ha...

And don't miss the Burger King tie-in I've got nothing to add. Ruben Bolling speaks for me today. Except that it will be nice for p...

In our village, we stopped for things that mattered (This column originally appeared in the Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY, November 17, ...

Futility In King Vidor's 1928 classic, "The Crowd," a baby's father speculates to the neighbors on the grand things ahead...

Speaking of a credit crisis ... November 9 marks (more or less) the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The actual destruction ...