Rhyme Of The Day

Arsenic & Old Lace feels like a very well constructed stage comedy to me, but I was reflecting last night on the fact that it starts up ...

In a nice suburb of Chicago: " Outraged Naperville residents are demanding that Hassert Boulevard be renamed, mistakenly believing th...

Octagonal design, sold as "Hex Weight".  Someone's geometric knowledge is not all that great.

Dennis Hastert, former speaker of the house, more recently a high powered lobbyist, got sentenced to 15 months today, in federal court here ...

I've found a new career. Crooks should shake in fear.

The mass transit system in Washington D.C. is a nice modern system. It opened 40 years ago. I vaguely remember the news. But they've alr...

Shakespeare padded his plays with famous quotes, and obsolete words requiring lots of notes.

It's hard to get a bib for the Boston Marathon. You have to be fast, or you have to raise a lot of charity money. But suppose you don...

After a day of crazy,  Labradors get lazy. 

There's a story that Arsenic and Old Lace was originally deadly serious,  but was reshaped by producers into something more delirious.

There once was a sensitive dude Who got mad when a poet was rude. The poet's on trial At least for a while But still has a bad attit...

Having to memorize lines is one of the tasks that defines theater acting as an art, but in fact it's only the start.

I just heard from an old friend, a friend I graduated 8th grade with, that she had spoken to our 8th grade teacher recently, and that our te...

When you see it real life instead of a graph, the Laffer Curve never yields much of a laugh.

I'm a regular reader of Scott Adams' Dilbert cartoon. I'm not a regular reader of his prose, but I've been reading a bit m...

In Chicago at night I can see the Big Dipper pretty clearly But the Little one doesn't seem nearly  As bright. 

Someone's got a "marine drone" hunting in Scotland for a famous cryptozoic critter: 'Rather than the fabled Loch Ness Mo...

I watched her walk the wire way up high, As calmly as could be, her step so spry, As if she had been born to grace the sky. I watched i...

Here's the Sun-Times headline: " Feds: Hastert paid to hide sexual abuse, then cried extortion " "Feds say Hastert mo...

The circus has to leave the town, The nose comes off of every clown, The tents and high wires all come down, And sorrow rules the day.  The ...