Every goddamn day: 05/12/25

    If you don't see something, despite looking for it, it could be:    A) it isn't there.    B) it is there, but occurring outsi...

The hated letters went up on Trump Tower three years ago this week.      We all know how well Donald Trump is doing as a president.   ...

     The money clip in Ann Tyler's 14th novel, A Patchwork Planet  is modest— "A leather money clip, the kind you make from a k...

      A cell phone today is as necessary as shoes, and most of us would feel as naked leaving the house without a phone as we would ...

   In 1855, an Illinois railroad lawyer named Abraham Lincoln wrote to his longtime friend, Joshua Speed, who had moved back to thei...

     This is my third article for Mosaic, the web site of science and medicine run by the Wellcome Trust, the largest med...

     You are going to be killed this afternoon.        In one of two ways — hypothetically, I rush to point out. This is a thought experi...