I've invented a word, "privanoia," which means paranoia about privacy. Privacy issues are raised again with recent stories of ...

Happy 71st birthday, Levon Helms! Happy 63rd birthday, Stevie Nicks! -

Like everyone else who lives in Utah, for years I've followed the Elizabeth Smart saga. The story, as they say, has legs, and became a s...

I'm reminded by my friend Eddie Hunter's blog, Chicken Fat , that what was supposed to happen Saturday evening was the Rapture, not ...

Over the years I've heard many contradictory news reports about coffee's health effects. Because I drink a lot of coffee I'm alw...

An article, "The Outlaw," in the May 16, 2011 issue of The New Yorker , about the late, unlamented Osama bin Laden, got my attenti...

In the past couple of months I've seen obituaries of two of my former coworkers. Both were listed on the sex offender registry for offen...

Let's see...what did I have planned for this week? I've gotten some of my main chores completed; I mowed the lawn on Saturday, as we...

Life magazine's editors could be playful, as witness this photo from its June 14, 1948 issue. If they wanted to show bare boobs in 1948...

I found this great 3" CD in a storage box in my basement. I thought it had been lost years ago. It's an oldies compilation with som...

...to Wanda, mother of Postino... ...to Shirley, mother of Sally... ...to Sally, mother of David... ...to Julia, mother of Bella and Gabby. ...

When Nat King Cole's performance of the song "Nature Boy" was number one for eight weeks in 1948, there was a sort of media fr...

Going through Life magazine issues from 1948 reminds me how much America has changed in 60 years, in some important ways. In those days smo...

In AARP Magazine for May/June 2011 there are several 70th birthday greetings for Bob Dylan. Among them is a tattle-tale anecdote by singer...

"TIME [magazine] includes a quote from when bin Laden told a journalist, "I am a person who loves death. The Americans love life. ...

Barack Obama had to choose between two bad ideas: respond to critics who said he wasn't born in the U.S., therefore ineligible to be pre...

I've been awash in nostalgia since Easter Sunday, when my brother gave me a two-CD compilation of top pop hits of 1964. It's his own...

I give credit to my wife, Sally, who finds unusual films on Netflix. Cold Souls , released in 2009, is a movie that totally slipped by us on...