(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) ( A Jon Swift picture , or possibly a visual summing-up of 2024.) Welco...

(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 ...

It would be nice if basic sanity and now democracy itself weren't on the line every presidential election, but here we are again. Donald...

It's the end of Banned Books Week , which celebrates banned and challenged books. My archive in the category is here . Last year, we l...

Although the United States of America is a flawed nation, it's good to remember that, in addition to other causes, it was founded in opp...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I've featured "The Parting Glass" before. It's a Scottish song, but is popular in Ireland a...

2023 had some notable films. Since the pandemic, I rarely go to movie theaters anymore, but did see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ...

(The Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves) ( A Jon Swift picture , which always seems timely during Republican presi...