I watched Barack Obama give his historic acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last week. It put me in mind of some things...

I don't know a teacher who wouldn't like to say this to a parent, just once. Today is the first day of school in our school district...

I haven't watched much of the Olympics. Sorry, I just think they have become so bloated, so self-important, that they have taken the fun...

As I type this, Sally is flying home from Pennsylvania after spending a week with our son, his wife and their kids. I know how she's ...

Here's my security badge from work. Do you know me? Do you know my double? There's been another sighting recently of my "twin...

My friend Eddie from the Chicken Fat blog ran a very funny picture from the 1950s. It's by Mad Magazine artist Will Elder, and a verit...

It took longer than normal, but I finally figured out what the joke is with this comic strip from yesterday.

I was looking through a biography recently and noticed this picture of a mother and baby I figure is from about 1930-31. The baby in the old...

Another public figure brought down by sex. John Edwards is just the latest in an interminably long line of men who get caught in adultery. T...

This probably comes under the heading of things I'd be better off not knowing. The little horror creature on top, scanned from the lates...

On this date 63 years ago the U.S. dropped its secret weapon, the atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later they dropped their othe...

Cartoonist Dan Piraro ( Bizarro ) had to explain this cartoon to me in his blog because I had missed the point completely. What he says is...

When you move to Utah make sure you know how to speak the lingo. Years ago I heard that some linguists can listen to a person talk and deter...

The Flash Gordon serials were shown on afternoon TV when I was young. In the early 1950s a lot of our television time consisted of movies a...

Considering how much it costs to make a movie, providing a script that has some logic to it isn't in the expense account. This is an old...

Recently in my local area a carload of gangstas unloaded some bullets on a rival gangsta, but they ended up instead killing a 7-year-old gi...

In the early 1990s I worked with a secretary in her forties, Brenda, who told me she had cancer in her leg, and that she would have to go on...

This image, which came from Pappy's Golden Age Comics , brought back memories of my first day of college. I was seriously out of place a...

My search for a part-time polygamous wife to take care of me is ended. You can read about my search in these past postings from Paranoia str...