Honestly, it was not lazily constructed. First, there's Trudeau's historical insightfulness. Also, the source image needed to be re-inked...

No preamble this year's collection. We know what we know. Terms & Conditions: Since about 2010, I've tried to match the number of songs...

I tried various sizes. The containers were just too small to visibly fit 200,000 dead people (there are actually about 199,400...

About a month ago, despite losing his summer job coaching basketball, my son donated ten of his last 11 bucks to George Floyd's GoFundMe...

Preface: Among dozens of unpublished posts are a few worthy of the light of day but woefully out of date & step with most everything....

I started a thing. I usually don't. But last week I decided to serenade my neighbors with some optimistic music. Nothing obscure. Wasn't...

Sunday's Doonesbury doesn't need a preamble, but I was reminded of that 2016 unauthorized recording in which House Majority Leader Kevin...

In defense of humans Lay down your power trip Stop toying with emotions and relationships Cause you don't rise when people fall In...

Songs released this year that captured my fancy (plus a few exceptions). Click here for Spotify Playlist 01. Love is Everywhere (Beware)....

A late-season series between the San Francisco Giants and Boston Red Sox – a contest with virtually no postseason repercussions – is not...

My dad was a Beach Boys fan. His favorites: "In My Room," "Wouldn't it be Nice," and "God Only Knows." He was also oddly fond of Barry...

My dad plays sudoku. He might be doing so right now in his hospital bed. A former math teacher, always a numbers guy... except in sports....

Pretty dang fascinating to watch fearful conservatism (apparently, the inevitable devolution of conservatism) paralyze both the UK and US...

Lorna Doom passed away last week. I missed the Germs (age 9 in 1980 & no older cousins, brothers). It wasn't until high school that...

Roland has been traversing presidential brains for decades, but his examination has never been more wholly accurate... (That hyperactive...

2018 was bewildering. (And that's a kind assessment.) However, in an impressive display of balance, the year also provided perhaps the...

The Democratic Party scored impressive wins in nationwide and regional contests this year. The success means party leadership has a new...

At the outset of Red Dawn, Russian paratroopers open-fire on a high school. I think I recall the camera lingering on a dead kid. It's a...

Families Belong Together. Amid extinction and kleptocracy, Saturday was spent marching for a most basic human right. Ridiculous. But...

"...if you supported us, you would have made a change long ago and you would be making changes now...So this is to every lawmaker out...