(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) (A 2007 Jon Swift picture .) Welcome to a tradition started by the lat...

RIP Nelson Mandela.

I wanted to try to visualize how our national political discourse should work, and discuss how it does work instead. Here's a simplif...

Here's Dido performing "Thank You," which I often run for Thankgiving. I hope it's been a good one for everybody.

It's too late for this year, but the site Labor 411 has a useful list of union-made Thanksgiving food products . I imagine they'll...

With the holidays fast approaching, this is a good time for those with the means to donate to their local food banks, or for those in need t...

A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and destructi...

(Click on the comic strip for a larger view.) In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly wrote: The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always ...