This story reminds me of an old joke. With what crime did police charge the 99-year-old rapist? Assault with a dead weapon!

Black Friday's a'comin', so hide your credit cards. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, the traditional first day of Chris...

For a variety of reasons these cartoons from the 2010 New Yorker calendar made me laugh. Over 85 years after it began, and established it...

We Americans love war. We're always fighting a war or two. Or three. We've been in Afghanistan since 2001, going into our tenth year...

The English language remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo stars Daniel Craig and newcomer Rooney Mara as Lisbeth. It will be released ...

Sally told me, "Applebee's restaurant is offering a free meal to all veterans on Veterans Day. We should take advantage of it....

November 11, 1968, 42 years ago today, was the last day of my two-year stint as a soldier in the U.S. Army. I flew home, greeted my family, ...

Going through the Life magazine archives on Google Books yesterday I came across this startling photo from the May 20, 1966 issue. Two wome...

The election results were disappointing to me, but the elections are over, at least. Time to move on. And 2012 isn't that far away, so t...

Winter is pushing its way into my neighborhood, and I'm feeling about as gray and dark as the clouds over my head. To celebrate the Hall...

Manning is fighting for his life. He and a killer with a gun are going at it, street fighting on the deck of a boat, in a desperate struggle...

Some time ago in this blog I complained that the expression, "hubba-hubba," appears to have disappeared from the lexicon of males ...