Rhyme Of The Day

I was reading a rant by Sarah Hoyt, a rant that's hard to summarize because when she gets going she really gets going, but I came across...

Some students at Berkeley are trying to stop Bill Maher from speaking at the Berkeley commencement this year. He has made some pointed state...

I'm reading Thomas Mann's long novel, The Magic Mountain, for our reconstituted book club. I got to wondering what my favorite Germa...

Not far from here, today, in Northwest Indiana, a Chicago-bound Amtrak train hit a tractor-trailer rig carrying cement powder. Great pictu...

If you want to be even scarier this Halloween tell people you're a carrier escaped from quarantine. It might work better yet if yo...

They said Mozart's talents were merely inherited, Unfairly come by, and not strictly merited. They let out an envious wail and bemoane...

Charles Murray, reflecting after 20 years on the reception accorded to the book he co-wrote about intelligence: 'I’m also thinking of ...

Hillary Clinton, the other day: "Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs." So who cr...

Jaltcoh, himself a white man, writes: "Everyone knows that men and whites have historically gotten a lot of unfair advantages, and it...

Today I was reading Hollingdale's book on Thomas Mann , and realized I had no idea what Hollingdale had looked like, or who he was exact...

I haven't read 50 Shades Of Grey. I did make a reference to it in a play. Anyway, I saw gossip today about the movie, which is repor...

As the Daily Mail asks: What HAS Renee Zellweger done to her face? Bridget actress looks utterly unrecognisable as she steps out with her ...

Haiku - they're from the Japanese whose poets used to strive to write in lines of snappy threes composed of 5-7-5.

I have a cold. It's better now. I had it really bad over the weekend, yet my Sunday was very productive, writing-wise. I finished the fi...

Back when I was in high school a friend told me that the ancient Greeks, at one point, had written both left to right AND right to left, alt...

Guess where my wife is this weekend: "Jenkins said this is a critical weekend for Dallas. Statistically speaking, this weekend is the...

There is nothing like a czar to bring me peace of mind. Whatever my worries are, they all get left behind, knowing that concentration ...

It's a sad situation in the people's paradise: "Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday blamed Washington for the slu...

At this point you're more likely to get hit by a thunderbolt than to catch that disease that's so frightening. But there's ze...

I was looking at a new book, In Praise of Intransigience: the perils of flexibility , by Richard H. Weisberg. First off, let me say, ethic...