I’ve had a tough couple of weeks. My knee, which I damaged somehow before going to Los Angeles, got swollen and painful from doing a lot of ...

Over the weekend I saw obituaries of two men I briefly worked with in the 1970s. I met them both at the school district warehouse where I ...

Blue Velvet , written and directed by David Lynch, was released in 1986 to puzzlement and even hostility by critics, including Roger Eber...

A recent case in Oklahoma has revived the old stories of spontaneous human combustion , where a person is quickly immolated from no apparent...

I look at this Life article on the 1951 Kefauver hearings — a U.S. Congressional investigation of organized crime — in a historical context...

When I started my three decades-plus at a suburban school district in 1976, the district had just over 60 schools covering about 400 square ...

I watched a Dateline: NBC on Friday, March 1, about Oscar Pistorius. For any of you who have been living in a cave, Oscar, from South Afric...

If a stranger came up to you and ranted that the government would come to your house and seize your property, what would you think? You'...

If you remember the mid-sixties you may recall the big Beatles flap. In a print interview John Lennon was quoted as saying the Beatles we...