Every goddamn day: 05/10/26

      Mark Twain said many clever things. So there is a tendency for the public to assign anything witty and not already identified with...

     This week the hollowness of the Donald Trump campaign came into focus. His effort lacks organization, staff and is wildly underfunde...

      There's a lot of crazy in the world, and from time to time, the on-line world funnels a few quarts of it in your direction. Imag...

    Americans generally believe in “exceptionalism.” We are not just another country on a planet chocked with other countries. Instead we ...

     One of the grimmest aspects of the Orlando slaughter is that it is just the bloodiest and most recent of many acts of armed terrorism...

    It's summer.     Okay, not officially.      Get all technical on me, why don't you.     But close enough.      The weather...

    When the newspaper sent a photographer to take a picture of the Maxon sign, the gun shop called the police. Who came, reminded them th...