Every goddamn day: 10/31/24

     The thing about Jews is, we don't like to go to synagogue, or practice the requirements of our faith. We recognize Judaism as ...

"Waiting for the Stage," by Richard Caton Woodville (Smithsonian Museum of American Art)      Facebook is kinda curdling, a...

     Strange. I really don't talk much about writing books here.       Several reasons, I suppose. I don't want to create the i...

     When Dorothy Parker heard that Calvin Coolidge had died, she quipped, “How can they tell?”      Which about summarizes my reaction to n...

Chalked sidewalk plea, Northbrook, Aug. 20, 2020       One common mistake among middling writers of opinion is to take whatever emoti...

      It's Saturday, which means EGD's Austin Bureau Chief Caren Jeskey checks in:       Chances are you did not see the live m...

      The paper asked me to write a short column for Friday, reacting to Joe Biden's acceptance speech at the end of the Democratic Nat...