Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

     Sometimes I forget what country I’m living in.      What country we’re living in.      Because like you, I’ve been ignoring the natio...

       The end of the second year—"anniversary" sounds too festive—of COVID arrives in February. But it's not too early to sta...

A scary clown mask on display at the paper during the Great Clown Panic of 2016.      Clowns don’t terrify me. Not the way they do others. B...

       I am not, almost needless to say, an especially good person. Not a bad  person, mind you. But very little of my time or energy is spe...

Ganesha (Art Institute of Chicago)       I was reading over today's report from Ravenswood bureau chief Caren Jeskey, and reflecting on ...

                                                    Photo courtesy of Apple Corps Ltd.          Sometimes you write something, and later rea...

The Great Pyramid, Giza, by Adrien Dauzats (Metropolitan Museum of Art)        The United States Congress is trying to decide whether it has...