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.

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

Sooner or later the valiant President Bonespurs and his crew of crazies, crooks and cronies (my party, in other words) will leave office.

We can hardly imagine Italian cuisine without the tomato.

I take stern exception to the notion that the way to prevent a war is to start one ...

This is year 250 for the USA. In 1976, year 200, there was a year- long celebration and it was joyful and hopeful.

Well, the hits just keep on coming...

The American Legion is a place I’ve always avoided, having no desire to visit or check it out.

The bombastic ballroom addition under way at the White House is yet another typical Trump stunt.

In September of 2025 the Indescribable Scribes, a prose and poetry writing group affiliated with the Astoria (Oregon) Writers Guild, sponsored a day long writing workshop.

It is very easy for folks my age to say hurtful things about older generations.

The body of works that is the entirety of human writing serves as a sort of collective consciousness.

One of the more humbling realizations during this Trump administration is that it has forced me to confront how much I don’t know.

On 5 November 2008, John McCain conceded the presidential election to Senator Barack Obama with the following remarks.

In the current climate, outrage fatigue is a real likelihood and a mortal threat.

This past February, I received my Canadian citizenship certificate.

...their classic concert album had valuable advice for certain politicians--as you may recall, its title was “Stop Making Sense.”

In the English version of the Grimm Brothers’ story about the Frog Prince, the prince turns into a regular guy when he gets kissed.