PRISMATIST

My Democrat friends, and quite a few of my Republican ones, are walking around humming “Ding dong, the witch is dead” after the recent electoral bloodbath.

I’m a baseball fan. As a kid I rooted for my home team to the point of tears.

The President of the United States is hopelessly in love with Vlad the Shirtless.

I was waiting to meet a friend at Coffee Girl on Pier 39 in Astoria, Oregon

They’re called flyover states for a reason ... most people have only glimpsed those states in the middle from the air, if at all.

Whatever you think about US elections, you have probably noticed that polls have become increasingly unreliable.

In modern times the term “prophet” is used for anyone who predicts coming events of greater or lesser import, with greater or lesser accuracy.

For sheer doggedness in pursuit of defeat, it is hard to beat the Democratic party of the United States.

There once was an antique chair that nobody knew was there.

The first time I visited the Pacific Northwest was on my honeymoon in 2002.

I think I am turning into a heterocephalus glaber, otherwise known as a naked, or hairless, mole rat.

On a warm, breezeless day, rare on the Oregon Coast, I join a queue of impatient motorists going south on the Coast Highway.

A woman sits at a table next to an open window.

As my VW van rumbles towards Zacatecas, Mexico, Jimmie rolls down the window and shouts, "Fantastico."

Several times a week for the last little while, valiant President Bonespurs has triumphantly declared the victorious end of his war on Iran ...

You don’t stop having birthdays just because the birthdays stop being happy.

What the Protector of Christianity has never mentioned, likely because he is ignorant of it, is that there are Christians in Iran and Oman.

My name is Tony Lopresti and I’ve been a lector since I started high school.

I was a Minnesota Boy Immersed in Irish joy ...

For too many amurricans, history started from the first thing they can personally remember.