(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 ...

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not...

Happy Banned Books Week , celebrating banned and challenged books! Here's the category in my archives, with posts covering issues of ...

I was very sad to hear about the death of my friend and blogging colleague, Mike Finnigan, due to kidney cancer at the age of 76. Mike was...

Happy Independence Day! (This post is mostly reruns of good stuff.) First up, here's NPR's annual reading of the Declaration of Ind...

John Warner, who served as a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009 and the Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974, died on May 25th ...

(One of the Lance Mannion portraits on his blog.) I was sad to see that one of my favorite bloggers, Lance Mannion (the nom du blog for ...

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...