I wrote this in 2007. Check out my 2013 update below. Ah, home ownership. The American dream. After about 40 trips this morning up and do...

I wrote this in 2010. I have done some editing on the contents of the original posting. My brother and I are non-religious, as were ou...

I wrote this in 2009. I have edited it slightly from its original appearance. Sleestak, at Lady, That's My Skull , a blog not unlik...

Two letters in my Sunday June 2, 2013 newspaper caught my attention. They are both about the Boy Scouts and their recent vote to allow openl...

I hadn’t planned on making a sequence of posts about Abraham Lincoln, but I’ve just read another interesting article about him and wanted to...

As a follow-up to yesterday’s 1956 article from American Heritage , this is an article from the February 15, 1963 issue of Life . In 1901 A...

I learned something yesterday while reading from my stash of old American Heritage magazines, in a fine article detailing events during ...

I wrote this in 2006. I have edited it slightly. I hate cell phones. I have one, but hate it. Those phones have become a major distraction...

Rachel Maddow, on her MSNBC show May 23, 2013, spoke of Alex Jones and his raging paranoia. Jones has an Internet show, Infowars . He is a c...

I clipped this letter to the editor from the newspaper in 2001 and found it recently when going through a box of miscellaneous papers. I rem...

My friend Henry Kujawa is doing digital restorations of the covers of Tim Holt comic books of the early 1950s. Here's an example. ...

This was originally posted in 2010. I am re-presenting it with some editing. Things I know for certain about my mother tongue, the Eng...

Noomi Rapace Over the past three nights I’ve watched The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy from Sweden on Netflix. I have seen it be...

In 2012 and 2013 we’ve had several outrages. We’ve had the shootings in Aurora; we’ve had the Newtown shootings. We were upset when the dict...

I originally posted this in 2010; with slight editing I am presenting it again. The past couple of days I watched some DVDs I borrowed ...

In a column for the Salt Lake Tribune on April 22, 2013, television columnist Scott D. Pierce gave his opinion on a TV show: “Have yo...

Where have all the editorial cartoonists gone? Gone to digital every one, to paraphrase the old song. In the golden years of editorial carto...

The Boston bombs were a week-and-a-half ago as I write this, and the 9/11 attack was over a decade ago. The residual effects of these events...