Rhyme Of The Day

The Trib today reported on the controversy over which is better to say: Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays. Naturally, lawyers have gotten ...

4 peace activists got kidnapped in Iraq. According to the Corner , their organization's website declares: "CPT does not advocate...

Before today, I was unfamiliar with the concept of " self-plagiarism ." It seems to be an academic term - no surprise there. Wha...

Recently a bunch of mammoth and mastodon remains have been found in Illinois. An Illinois paleontologist declared: "It almost seemed ...

My wife's aunt, uncle, and her cousins and their families, just left. It's kind of an Italian whirlwind, boisterous, loud, and all k...

It has become a stereotype that infantry combat wrecks a man's psyche. Somehow, after the VietNam conflict, it became the accepted wisd...

Some people have an evasion For each and every occasion; And no amount of persuasion Can even make a dent.

I am such a shopping ignoramus. I don't even know why today is being called Black Friday. It has something to do with today being the bi...

My children are home for the Great Stuffing Festival. My son arrived last night at 1 am and started talking about how COLD it was. Well, he ...

Spiderman got busted in Houston, TX. On drug charges. Not the real Spiderman. Some French guy who climbs skyscrapers. The drug he got ...

EDIT: the Tribune's news story editing problems described in this post have now been fixed. There was a bad train accident this evening ...

Unconscious people are trapped in a smoky burning car. What do you do? You smash the car windows in with a frozen Thanksgiving turkey! At le...

At work there are people I exchange emails with once a month. We're doing it this week, and we're already wishing each other Happy T...

We've been watching Rome on HBO. It's a TV series, produced with the BBC, with all British actors and what sounds to me like a Briti...

I see where Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, says that "imposing democracy is an oxymoron." Surely this statement ...

They've done an O.J. on Robert Blake , in the matter of the murder of his wife. First he was found not guilty in a criminal trial. Bu...

In 14 lines, a sonnet tries to catch A little less than all the world's spread. It's not a microcosm, it's a sketch Of one small...

Keats' sonnet " On Seeing The Elgin Marbles " has never been one of my favorites. Michelle Fram Cohen is giving a talk Saturd...

Snow swirled through the city today, the first snow of the season, not very much of it, not enough to leave a blanket of white, just enough ...

Today I found a penny. I picked it up and thought of my middle child, Noelle, who is gone. I have a game I play with myself, or perhaps it i...