The October 21, 1967 issue of TV GUIDE caught my eye at the local antiques mall. First, a beautiful picture of Mia Farrow on the cover, less...

Joe Hill was executed a hundred years ago. He was killed by a firing squad in the Utah State Prison. Joe, a member of the International Work...

My last couple of posts have been about my elusive memory. Some memories, even important ones, have faded, other minor memories stand out. W...

Two score and seven years ago, {or 47 years for those of you who might not know that a score is 20 years}, I was released from the United St...

The other day I sat down to watch some DVDs, old horror movies, to write up in this column before Halloween. The missus is gone in her role ...

Nick Redfern’s 2012 book, The Pyramids and the Pentagon , is enormously entertaining. Redfern is a reporter who writes about subjects like U...

Recently I watched all five seasons of HBO’s excellent series, The Wire , on DVD. I binge-watched, six episodes per day until I had finished...

Last night I could not remember the word “artichoke.” Such a simple thing, yet I could not remember. When I have moments like this (also cal...

In 1946 a killer murdered five people in Texarkana, the town that straddles both Texas and Arkansas. Four of the victims were young people p...

Despite living in the Mormon Mecca of Utah, I had not heard this about my fellow citizens until this past Friday: Some Mormons, called “pr...

Ladies and gentlemen...grinning his Satanic grin, The Donald! I am a Democrat, yet fascinated by Donald Trump. Not as a fan, but as som...

In the middle of August we are in what is the silly season for news. Or it is what would traditionally be the silly season, but that was m...