Rhyme Of The Day

Another run around the sun tonight is done. We've reckoned it to the second, so great is our pleasure in measurement.

The Wall St. Journal had a nice article today on alternate calendar schemes . The chief advantage of these schemes is that a given date alwa...

The would-be crotch bomber reportedly had some big brains behind him - big brains who had done time in Gitmo, but who had been released duri...

Anna North has 4 reasons to quit being "offended" . To quote her headings: It's overused. It devalues actual, justified rage. ...

One of my fabulous Christmas presents was this horse, which came with its own removable elephant costume, put together by Anna Weiler. She a...

"The system worked." That's usually good to hear. But after a mega-failure, it tends to inspire fear. That's a quote from ...

New book: Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid - the latest attempt to help poor Cupid! It's by a couple who are also comedy writers. Someti...

The latest book to try to help along Cupid: Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid. It's a comic effort, written by a couple comedy writers who...

Our family's joke phrase of the past 2 days is: "You ruined Christmas!" I've been thinking about O. Henry's short stor...

Donald Duck may not be a big part of your holiday celebrations. But in Sweden, this is his time to shine: Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., ...

The Chicago Tribune has the story: A guy gets kidnapped by a car full of armed young people. They drive him to an ATM. One takes the guy...

They were coming to Illinois but there's been a delay - the president can't get the money to move the prisoners away from Guantánamo...

I've been reading Nude with Violin, a play by Noel Coward . It put me in mind of Art, a play by Yasmina Reza . Both plays ask whether mo...

Federalism raises its sleepy head: The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a fund...

One small chunk of the economy is booming - the lobbying biz! Washington’s influence industry is on track to shatter last year’s record $3.3...

Debra Ross explains: I saw the name "Lightbulb Day" somewhere on the internet as a way someone had devised of celebrating the holi...

Aristotle thought everyone had happiness as a goal. But is it bad for your cognition to actually arrive at the goal? The University of New S...

Disturbing news, at least for some: Cocaine's a hell of a drug, and even more so when laced with another drug that's commonly used t...

Garrison Keillor is unhappy with Christmas songs written by Jewish guys: And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the ...

An army general is banning pregnancy in Iraq. Anyone who becomes pregnant or impregnates another servicemember, including married couples as...