Rhyme Of The Day

This is not encouraging me to visit: "Proving that China’s fight against pollution has moved decisively into the realm of parody, bag...

Ann Althouse has an interesting post up about this: Which is a poster I saw last night at the movie theater. In her own comments, some...

Yesterday I heard a hip hop / rap song on the radio. I could tell a certain word was edited out by the rhyming scheme. The song is "Gol...

In Urinetown the Musical, a drought somehow leads to a situation in which city dwellers cannot pee for free. However, in some part of Japa...

Earlier today, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times both featured stories trumpeting the results of polls about Obamacare's pop...

The other day, I was reading: Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular culture in Modern America . "Everyday Reading is the first full-le...

Maxfield Parrish loved to pose women on rocks in wispy clothes. (If you're interested, it's a painting called Solitude, and here...

I was amused by this Onion headline: " College Admissions Office Finds Ideal Applicant Capable Of Subsidizing Tuition Of 3 Low-Income...

I'm fascinated watching our choreographer for Urinetown. It's an alien art to me, so I like to watch her mind work, at least as it s...

Illinois elected to participate in the great Medicaid Expansion implemented by the health care reform law. It is not going well. " Un...

We went to see Divergent, the movie version of the young-adult SF novel. It's set in a dystopic Chicago - a future one. My wife had a...

I don't understand: "A couple who collected food stamps and other public assistance from Minnesota while living on a yacht in Flori...

My Fitbit Force wants a divorce! I've enjoyed it - it was a great Christmas gift from my son - but 17 out of a 1000 users are complai...

I suppose I should write some sprightly lines about Spring, but I'm not quite ready to sing.

Is it time to buy a new one of these? This one did last a pretty long time. The bear awakes and give the globe a shake.

I think I've posted before about the other John Enright who's an author, who published a couple of novels after I published mine, b...

I got these 2 coins in my change today at Barnes & Noble. That's a British 10 Pence coin with their queen's portrait on the lef...

I just finished reading "Harriet Jacobs: A Play", by Lydia Diamond . Some years ago I took a "dialog workshop" led by ...

Finally, research on a topic that truly matters to me: "Research at the U.K.’s Aston University has confirmed the old adage that food...

NSA hijacks hackers' botnets - I only hope they have not yet taken over my PC because I want to charge a fee. ( Joke stolen from Gl...