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Will someone please explain to this mother that a mosque would be an insult to the victims of 9/11? (photo by Platon, published on-line by ...

(This column first ran in the Press-Republican in January, 1998.  The cartoon is by John Sherrfius of the Boulder Daily Camera.) The Myth...

The anniversary has never gone unmarked. Nor have our lives.   Please use your seat belts.

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When the road was sometimes longer than the love (Part Two) I can't remember the name of the truck stop at the intersection of I-80 an...

When the road was sometimes longer than the love Creamcheese didn't get to come to the Wadena Rock Festival, 40 years ago. But we had o...

A decade on, the bigots triumph I was on my way to deliver some newspapers to a classroom on September 11, 2001, when I walked through the ...

Another British visitor (Colorado Springs Sun, June 20, 1982) (I wrote this piece following a visit to Colorado by Princess Anne, which was...

Thoughts upon watching The Graduate at 60 i was talking to a moth the other evening he was trying to break into an electric light bulb ...

Middle-aged pornography I've just added a friend of a friend at Facebook and discovered a luxurious website. The friend-of-a-friend is ...

Best sixth grade talent show act I've seen in months I may be coming to the party late. This kid 's video has had over 26 million...

More World Cup, more nostalgia Back in the olden days, during the last World Cup, I put this together. I thought of it today watching Niger...

A little Tuareg music I posted a link to this band, Tinariwen , which played at yesterday's World Cup Concert, over at Comic Strip of...

Those who don't remember history lessons are condemned to repeat the course There seem to be so many observers of the past week's ...

Our Hearts Were Touched By Fire A speech by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., delivered Memorial Day, 1884, at John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Gr...

Yeah, I thought he did it. The show is finally over in New Portland, Maine, where Jeffery LaGasse pleaded guilty yesterday in the 2007 mu...

They were standing under a tree each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them...

Best commencement speech ever Someone recently posted this on a cartoonists blog, along with a second link, which I found was dead. So rath...