Every goddamn day: 12/02/24

Not in Toledo.      Q: What's the difference between a newspaper column and a blog post?      A: You can miss a newspaper column.      A...

     Computers of course are binary. Everything we see on a screen, from a full length Hollywood movie to a text message to the period at th...

       For the past 20 years or so, we've hosted Thanksgiving. Big boisterous events packed with food and family. But this year we had a...

I bought the Virgil quote button from Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers in Wauconda.         Homer's  Iliad  and Odyssey are far greater wor...

My boundless professional respect and personal admiration for Sen. Dick Durbin has nothing — nothing! — to do with the fact that he sometime...

Nov. 6, 2024        I'm on vacation, dredging up recent material written but never posted (amazing to think I write even MORE than what ...

     I'm on vacation this week, running posts that somehow never made it online. This was written in August.       One of the many thing...