Every goddamn day: 08/13/26

     Two days on "Paradise Lost" worked surprisingly well. So when Facebook served up the memory of this column, built around ...

     While I am the sole writer, editor, and proprietor of this blog, I'm not the only person who helps make it a success. Sometimes I f...

Satan, Sin and Death, by Thomas Rowlandson. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)         "F… F… F… J… J… J…"      I don't remember muc...

     “Help yourself to some salad,“ said my wife, pushing an attractive bowl of feta, tomato and cucumber in my direction. I gazed at the pa...

      When the history of our current disaster is written — if we still do that sort of thing — I'm sure the Democrats will get their sh...

         This is a fun story from the summer before this blog began. Checking on the family involved, I see  Peter Blake retired from the Ma...

      For many years now I've had fun sparring with Eric Zorn, first of the Tribune, now of The Picayune Sentinel. Our friendship did no...