Rhyme Of The Day

I do this neighborhood 10k, the Ridge Run, every Memorial Day, since 1983. Last year my time was 53 minutes, even. This year my time was 58 ...

I watched our neighborhood Memorial Day parade today. On the military side, there were some vets, and a high school ROTC unit. The ROTC grou...

Showed some young boys how to: 1) dig a hand-sized tunnel between two holes in the sand. 2) dig to the water table - which is lake level. It...

Top flop: In a demoralizing setback, BP engineers said Saturday that the "top kill" effort to stem the flow of oil gushing from a ...

Do they have an Anna Karenina station too? The opening of a Moscow Metro station named after Fyodor Dostoevsky has been postponed after comp...

This four-year old risks his neck when he chooses to misbehave, but before he hits the deck, a shopkeeper makes the save.

Here in Chicago, an 80 year-old army vet shot and killed a burglar this morning. It sounds like the vet had a pistol, in defiance of our han...

In the comments to a recent post, brought up Robert Service , who wrote some very popular poems, many set in the icy wastes of the Yukon. H...

Cottony seeds caught in the wind glowed as if gold under the street light. They sweep over cars hovering boldly hoping for haven deep in the...

I saw Alicia Reese doing Electra tonight, while Anna Weiler played Angry Chorus Girl. The actresses switched their roles. The characters ca...

I read this in a beautiful review of Dream Theatre's Electra: On top of which, Menekseoglu pulls in elements from all three tragedians—A...

Discover recently ran article entitled "The Brain: Why Athletes Are Geniuses". The title is hype, but does draw attention to the ...

The 18ft high posters of the Nazi leader advertise a line of clothing for young people and adorn street corners and bus stops in Palermo, Si...

From the bizarre death department: A young mother died after doctors failed to spot a 15cm-long toilet brush handle embedded in her buttock....

I'm not content with the famous version of this quote any longer: What does not kill us... maims us or makes us stronger.

I finished reading Electra by Sophocles . Liked it. Very moving in places. I find myself liking Sophocles best of the 3 extant ancient Greek...

Roger L. Simon writes about Chicago: Someone named Daley has been the city’s mayor since somewhere in the Early Paleolithic Age. Chairman Ma...

Republican: After non-abstinent action with Ms. Jackson, Congressman Souder is suddenly taking a powder. Democrat: Also, as you may have hea...

From Louisville, KY: Rand Paul defeated Republican establishment favorite Trey Grayson in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate, a closely watched...

Obama's aunt, who was ordered to be deported by a judge in 2004, has finally won asylum. "The asylum process is confidential and sh...