Rhyme Of The Day

Forecasters are promising a Snowmaggedon event here, starting just about when my play reading was supposed to start. The theater people we...

A federal judge today ruled that the Health Care bill is void, on constitutional grounds. Of course, others have ruled it A-ok, so this is h...

It had somehow escaped my notice, but 200 dead cows showed up in a Wisconsin pasture 2 weeks ago. I believe it was aliens. But scientists ha...

The chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts said something controversial about "struggling theaters": “You can either incre...

My friend asked me this morning what was going on in Egypt and I said "Revolution." Of course, it may fail. And if it succeeds in ...

I saw a very charming play tonight - Downward Facing, by Mishelle Apalategui . The title refers on the surface to "downward facing dog,...

The ruling is in, and it's unanimous, 7-0. The Illinois supreme court says Rahm Emanuel is eligible to be mayor of Chicago. They cite an...

Homeland Security is finally getting rid of the color codes! “The old color coded system taught Americans to be scared, not prepared,” said ...

In local news: A 40-year-old Chicago man, who works as a motivational speaker for the anti-violence group We Stop the Killings, is scheduled...

An appeals court has dealt Rahm Emanuel's candidacy for mayor of Chicago a setback: “We ... order that the candidate’s name be excluded ...

20 miles from Boston, MA: An Abington man is being charged with creating bombs at his former address in Abington after police had been told ...

Here's Thomas Friedman, prominent author and NY Times columnist, saying nice things about autocracy: There's only one thing worse, i...

Italian regulators have managed to interfere in American executions - by getting a company to stop making a drug that a lot of states use in...

I drew this while thinking of a certain play that has a reading coming up . My central two characters use made-up names in online games that...

Funny line from Rush Limbaugh's site: 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Hosts the Man Who Has Imprisoned the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner. ...

For book club we read Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, by Sam Tanenhaus . It's well-written, well-researched, and adopts an objective to...

Some young burglars thought they had discovered containers of cocaine. But really they had discovered the urns of ashes. Investigators lear...

Someone did a big study of college students and what they learned: The research of more than 2,300 undergraduates found 45 percent of studen...

I just finished reading a very interesting biography of Whittaker Chambers, about which I shall probably post later, but it made me dredge u...

It's MLK's birthday, and it's BF's birthday , by which I mean Benjamin Franklin. Did you ever notice that a lot of the Found...