Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

Stevenson Memorial, by Abbott Handerson Thayer (Smithsonian American Art Museum)     The key to writing a column is to say some thing...

      J.B. Pritzker gave another $7 million to his own gubernatorial campaign Friday.      Which, doing the math, is roughly the equivalent...

      When an opponent's king is under attack in chess and cannot escape to safety, the victorious player announces "checkmate!...

"Oedipus at Colonos" by Jean-Baptist Hugues (Musee d'Orsay)                                     Religion fancies itself...

      "Do you realize," my wife said, "that the flowers you bought match the flowers on the pitcher exactly?"      ...

     The moment I set eyes on this dim and cluttered place I thought, "Mmmm, could it...?" I know I'm batting zero when it c...

     The Saturday Fun Activity is back for a surprise visit—I found myself in a location that I thought might stump you. And since that, tra...