Happy National Poetry Month! This year, I thought I'd go with an unconventional pick. Michael Collins, one of the three Apollo 11 astron...

This is the first year since I started watching the Oscars that I hadn't seen any of the nominees. (I probably started watching at five...

(On the set of Red Beard. From right to left, Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, Reiko Dan, and Yoshio Tsuchiya.) Akira Kurosawa's birth...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day , which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. During the insurrection at t...

This year, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, it seems most appropriate to focus on voting rights. I've featured this passage before ; ...

(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) ( A Jon Swift picture that captures the spirit of 2020.) Welcome to t...

Happy Thanksgiving! Arlo Guthrie announced his retirement earlier this year for health reasons; you can read his statement on his website he...

(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 ...

As far as this problem of law and order is concerned, I am for law and order. – Richard Nixon, accepting the Republican presidential nomin...