Every goddamn day: 10/22/25

       Large portraits of tattoo icons Tatts Thomas and Ralph Johnstone watch over Nick Colella as he works.      "Both of those guys t...

      For a guy who likes to loaf, I hate being sick. I suppose most people do. That drained, feverish feeling. Gobbling Tums to settle the ...

Victoria Eason, left, and her mother Jennifer.      "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatu...

"Mexican News," by Alfred Jones, after Richard Caton Woodville (National Gallery of Art)            Face the music. Accept the new...

Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles by Jean-Léon Gérôme (Musée d'Orsay)      A regular reader in Norway writes:      "I’m tr...

No Kings rally, Des Plaines, June 14, 2025      Protest is as American as apple pie and baseball. Our nation began with colonists decrying a...

       The interview at the Pittsfield Building on Wednesday ran a little over 90 minutes, from 9:30 a.m to just after 11. I didn't have...