Bats Left/Throws Right

Local news followed a group of D-Day veterans to the WWII Memorial, which gave Danny "Home Ballistics Test Kit" Burton the opportu...

Grüss an Aachen, which we call "Jerry", the first rose to be categorized as a Floribunda (in 1930). It was hybridized in Germany...

As happens every so often I slammed smack into Morphean nonchalance last night about halfway through a post and actually slept for nine hour...

There's no sharper illustration of the mind/body-East/West-action/contemplation dichotomia of our lonely struggles than giving the achin...

So, this week Comedy Central changes the start time for The Daily Show rerun. You may recall that we already don't know what time it is...

Bush rose and the big maple, with the autumn fern at left just turning from brown to green.

So, via The Next Hurrah I see that the Gentleman from Mississippi seems to have been the Republican who brokered the Filibuster deal. Funn...

Pat Buchanan: "People that brought down Nixon also resulted in the fall of South Vietnam..." Well, Pat, I've always felt that...

Cheers go out to Anurag Kashyap (above), winner of the 2005 National Spelling Bee, ESPN for carrying it, and my Poor Wife for taping the thi...

Marvin Gaye, What's Goin' On Walter Becker, Cringemaker Donald Fagen, Ruby Baby Wheatus, Wannabe Gangstar Johnny Rivers, Sevent...

Let's pretend. Let's pretend it's 1999, and you are part of the group which has anointed George W. Bush the next Republican nomi...

June is Gay Pride Month. June is also National Accordion Awareness Month.