(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 ...

We're at the tail end of Banned Books Week , which celebrates banned and challenged books. My archive in this category is here . This ...

The California primary elections are rapidly coming up on Tuesday, 6/7. Many Angelenos might have voted already by mail or in person, but th...

National Poetry Month is almost over, but as usual, I wanted to link the Favorite Poem Project and feature a poem. I was looking for good c...

I was able to see a handful of the nominees this year, but still not that many. Going to the movies is safer than it was before a COVID-19 ...

Just in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day , a Tennessee school district has banned Maus , an amazing, Pulitzer-winning grap...

(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) ( An appropriate Jon Swift picture for the year.) Welcome to the 2021 ...

(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 ...