I'm out of town, so I've found some of my favorite old postings to recycle. I've been following the stories of Tea Partiers (unk...

After I wrote in my last blog about incivility in politics I went to my files to find more examples from a national perspective. It's n...

I've written about Curtis Allgier before. He's an inmate in the Utah State Prison who killed his 60-year-old guard while at a hospit...

Men's adventure magazines--or "men's sweat" magazines, as they're sometimes called--were popular from the 1950s into ...

Iran's been in the news again lately. As I write this their promised release of an ill American prisoner is apparently on hold, as is th...

The sickening report was told in this morning's local newspaper: less than six blocks from my house a four-year-old girl was led by a ma...

Johnnie Ray was a popular singer in the early 1950s. His biggest songs, the two-sided hit, "Cry" and "The Little White Cloud ...

When I go to a thrift store I look at photo frames because sometimes I find personal or family pictures. Yesterday I found the above sepia-t...

Looking through the old issues of Life magazine on Google Books is an education on the middle decades of the Twentieth Century, especially i...

This tribute to Richard F was in my local paper yesterday, mixed in with the obituaries. The piece is in extremely bad taste, and I don'...

Here's a 1960s flashback: Jennifer Anniston does a turn as Barbra Streisand on the current issue of Harper's Bazaar. The catch is yo...

Kyra Sedgwick turned 45 today. This beautiful actress is the star and executive producer of The Closer , shown on TNT Monday nights. It'...

From 1976 to 1981 I worked part-time in the rare books department of a large full-service bookstore in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our store was s...

It's Gary Larson's 60th birthday today. Larson, who did the comic panel, "The Far Side", for 15 years, is still reaping th...