Rhyme Of The Day

New Year's Day at noon, at North Avenue Beach, a group of us will be taking a ceremonial dip in the waters of Lake Michigan. It's ...

I was reading the Sunday Trib and I came across a 2 page ad for Cymbalta, which at first I thought was the name of a campfire song. Someone...

Against my better judgment, I've continued reading Artificial Happiness . The author, Ronald W. Dworkin, MD PhD , is a lively writer wh...

Here's a story about an Indiana couple who spent Christmas week gathering gifts in an unusual way. The gifts weren't really theirs....

Tonight we took in a performance of The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan. It's too late for me to make up a rhyme of my own, so I'm g...

New Years Day, at 10 pm EST, the Dating Roadkill radio talk show will debut on the net. I'm a regular reader of the host's website...

Having made my way through the Inferno, I'm reading a fun historical romance, Jared's Runaway Woman . I did find an amusing blooper...

Today I was looking at a book called Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side Of The New Happy Class . It's written by a guy who thinks peopl...

“Is a ’Savior’ still needed by a humanity which has reached the moon and Mars and is prepared to conquer the universe; for a humanity which ...

Is it Isaac Newton 's birthday or not? He was born on December 25, 1642 - as dates were then reckoned in England. Some years after his d...

The trees are stripped of their leaves, But the grass has retained its hue. It's one of the greener Christmas Eves I've had a chance...

This morning, as we were leaving class, our Pilates instructor reeled off the litany: Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy...

Macy's has pulled Sean John jackets from the racks. The "faux fur" trim is oddly flawed. The fur's for real - and so it...

I've been reading Dante's Inferno for the first time. I admit, I had already read the science fiction version , and found it passa...

A baby went through an X-ray machine at LAX. The X-ray watcher noticed the unusual shape and pulled the kid out of the scanner. That'...

In hours my daughter turns 21. I hope her birthday's fun.

I'm not surprised rats dream , but I'm impressed That someone figured out a way to test This gnawing question. Paging B.F. Skinner ...

Shannon Love offers an explanation of how the Iraq economy can appear to be booming - even though i.e.d.s are booming too. Her argument is t...

Betty, the cat, keeps sitting motionless in the hall by the door, intently studying a tiny crack where the floor meets the wall. Is there a ...

I've always enjoyed reading Stephen Green - a.k.a. Vodkapundit. He writes like a dream, he's funny, he has a gift for surprising ob...