Rhyme Of The Day

The cherry blossoms arrive. If there's no more snow, they might survive!

It's nice to see Spring become an actual thing, instead of an abstract date in a winter that ran too late.

A journey of a thousand miles, begins they say with just one step, and hopefully a bunch of pep, since you'll be stepping for quite a wh...

This mistake happened in Brazil: Bruno Coutinho was cleaning his harpoon gun at his home in Petropolis when he accidentally triggered the...

King Canute, in his pride, tried to regulate the tide. For this feat, he got wet feet, and met defeat.

Tiny creatures with exoskeletal features have invaded our house. I mean ants. It's a spring thing around here, but this year, I fear, th...

Drought washed away - that's the positive slant. But the farmers say it's too wet to plant.

If your partner in crime is already dead, always insist that he was the head, while you, a mere hand, just obeyed his command.

Do you ever have issues with regular facial tissues? Is it the case that your nose, when it blows, just goes right through two-ply on the f...

FBI, I'm wondering why you didn't keep more of an eye on this guy.

I just got back from a musical celebrating Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution. Yes, really, The Mother , by Bertolt Brecht, based on a...

What a way to go - run over by your bro! Sort of a poetic way to die, and it couldn't happen to a more appropriate guy.

They thought they were such smarties, blaming terrorist tea parties, thinking it would be majestic if the bad guys were domestic, but alas, ...

I walked out of rehearsal, and into a mid-April snowstorm. Well, I play the cold-hearted villain in Jane Eyre, so this may be my fault....

I have friends who are upset about the heavy handed display of SWAT team stuff. But I am not upset. This was exactly what the SWAT stuff is ...

I'm not sure I'd heard it called that before, but I've sure encountered it a lot. Wikipedia describes the argument from moderati...

I actually expected the gun control measure to pass in the Senate, rather than to go down in flames. I mean, there's a Democratic majori...

A friend of mine has told me more than once, over the years, about a deadly bombing he witnessed - and nearly walked into - in Dublin, back...

That's the logo of the Boston Athletic Association, which puts on the Boston Marathon each year, for over a hundred years now. A p...

Yesterday I mentioned a local cemetery in disrepair, but today we have a wild story of an individual grave vandal, in England: Clare Bur...