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Editor’s note: A version of this column was published in 2017. Some girls are spending $2,000 or more on their custom prom dresses. I offer some advice to 2024 promgoers, based on my own prom experience in 1980...
Just because I think littering should be punishable by death doesn't mean I'm an unreasonable person. I smile when dogs get on public transport. I also have a freshly-oiled chainsaw in my garage...
Tyrades! Sentimentality saved the day in the funnies, just as it usually applies the brakes to abrupt municipal name changes in the real world. Neither did my father. We can’t change!..
For almost a decade, Donald Trump has sent the Republican Party and much of the mainstream media into a political whirlwind. But it's nothing new for the Grand Old Party...
Month after month, poll after poll, a majority of Americans express their dissatisfaction with the Biden administration over virtually every issue of concern – domestic and foreign...
Boy, is technology making us ruder. You see, long before the era of nasty Facebook posts and mean tweets — long before people had such an easy means to be rude to each other — there was a much tamer version of email rudeness...
John Paul II once stated that “there can be no rule of law … unless citizens and especially leaders are convinced that there is no freedom without truth...
Add California Governor Gavin Newsom’s name to the list of prominent elected officials who blatantly lied about their personal histories. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal falsely claimed to have been a Vietnam war combatant...
The cost of everything, from gas to groceries, remains stubbornly high. Home prices skyrocketed during the COVID pandemic, and inflation fears forced interest rates to rise...
How sad it is that few Americans have heard of Bob Graham, who died Tuesday at 87, because this guy was truly a profile in courage when we needed it most...
Making Sense By Michael Reagan “Death to Israel! �� It sounds like something you’d hear chanted by hundreds of brainwashed young people in the streets of Tehran...
For those too young to fully remember the OJ Simpson trial, it was a television spectacle with all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster...
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- 04/24/2024 Advice for 2024 promgoers
- The pick of the litter
- Does your town need renaming?
- 04/23/2024 Trump’s vileness on race is hardly new among Republicans
- 04/22/2024 Biden is weak, but Republicans are embarrassing themselves
- Longing for the days of email rudeness
- NPR leader shows her true colors
- 04/19/2024 Five Pinocchios for Gavin Newsom
- 04/18/2024 Sell the house: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Rest in peace: Truth-teller Bob Graham, who defied Iraq war fever
- ‘Hating America, 101’ – a course for homegrown terrorists?
- 04/17/2024 What you might have forgotten about OJ Simpson and his trial
- A run down to London
- Ready for the bathroom of tomorrow?
- 04/15/2024 OJ Simpson’s death is an opportunity for us all
- Take our daughters and sons to grandma’s
- 04/11/2024 Good or bad economy? Top 10 cartoons of the week
- Trump’s abortion punt
- Republicans need to unite, not fight
- 04/10/2024 Losing sleep over sleep
- Biden wrong to oppose Nippon Steel Deal
- Will you still need me, will you still feed me?
- 04/09/2024 Defending higher education against cynical politics
- 04/08/2024 Outpatient decluttering
- In tribute to the insight and longevity of Gloria Steinem
- A good month to prevent distracted driving
- 04/05/2024 Wall Street giddy over mass migration
- 04/04/2024 Eclipse time: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Who’s going to save America’s soul?
- Don’t compare Trump’s social media post to Kathy Griffin
- 04/03/2024 One again, Republicans are politicizing a tragedy
- One for the road
- Are you a fan of noisy restaurants?
- 04/01/2024 Born in Baltimore and moved by the bridge disaster
- Insights from great minds on Taxes
- 03/29/2024 Trump trials: Top ten cartoons of the week
- 03/28/2024 East Palestinians see red over Biden’s politics
- 03/27/2024 NBC News and the folly of the Ronna McDaniel failure
- One point of view
- Ever have a work spouse?
- 03/26/2024 Opening Day 1969: ‘The Kid’ returns
- Joe ‘It’s not my fault’ Biden
- Kamala Harris and the twin evils of ‘Jim Crow and Jane Crow’
- 03/25/2024 Message for my digital goddaughter
- Entitled to more than a 20% tip or just entitlement mentality?
- 03/21/2024 Bad choices: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Oakland’s tax revolt is a hopeful insurrection
- On environmental investing, Main Street speaks and Wall Street responds
- The day Republican’s impeachment efforts died
- 03/20/2024 Gone loopy
- So you acknowledge Jesus as a wise teacher? Really?
- 03/19/2024 Meghan Markle doesn’t have to help Princess Kate
- Still living the American dream
- What’s with all the big stuff?
- Rant against Israel by Jewish director was jarring
- 03/14/2024 To win, the GOP needs to say what its for, not against
- On St. Patrick’s Day, remembering when the Irish ruled the ring
- The big re-run: Top ten cartoons of the week
- A female Republican’s most thankless job
- I got COVID when COVID wasn’t cool
- 03/13/2024 Katie Britt and the cult of the kitchen
- Speak softly and carry a can opener
- Has the Pentagon shattered your faith in UFOs?
- 03/12/2024 Missing my Irish ancestors
- 03/11/2024 The struggling Biden campaign
- Our obsession with true crime
- Pushing veterans aside to hire ‘new Americans’
- Search for answers in Philly shootings leads to a need for searches
- 03/08/2024 Joe Biden’s State of the Union was strong. Why am I not surprised?
- 03/07/2024 All about age: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Have we forgotten Trump’s ‘appalling response’ to the pandemic?
- A miracle in California
- 03/06/2024 What does spring break mean to you?
- Not much to speak of
- 03/05/2024 The creep of Christian nationalism
- 03/04/2024 No brainer
- Texas off base to go after Catholic halfway house
- 02/29/2024 Biden woes: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Nikki, it’s time to fold your losing hand
- The damage Mitch McConnell has done to democracy is indelible
- 02/28/2024 Am I overthinking slang?
- Philosophy rocks
- Becoming a Swiftie Dad, and other skills I’ve learned
- 02/27/2024 Black voters aren’t buying Trump’s racial pandering
- 02/26/2024 Will forgiving college debt win or lose votes?
- Big pharma’s song and dance
- Still waiting for Trump to condemn Putin over Navalny death
- 02/23/2024 From Russia with love: Top ten cartoons of the week
- 02/22/2024 Hail to our criminal in chief?
- Black History Month: Satchel Paige, the pitcher meets the dictator
- Trump wants to bring Kremlin values to the White House
- 02/21/2024 Spending wisely
- Have you ever taken full responsibility?
- 02/19/2024 Women and the future of politics
- Reading more books is good for America
- A deeper type of love
- 02/16/2024 Top ten cartoons of the week
- Congressman shows we still have a long way to go on race
- 02/15/2024 Tried and tested
- Ignore the polls. When real people cast real ballots, Democrats win.
- 02/14/2024 Where do you fall on the sports fan spectrum?
- 02/13/2024 The loveless state of modern romance
- The world’s greatest inventions
- Larry David can’t curb his instincts
- 02/12/2024 Many lessons to be learned from excellent ‘Holdovers’
- 02/08/2024 A wild week: Top ten cartoons of the week
- For Republicans, chaos is the point
- Joe Biden’s deterioration should be off stage
- Billy Joel’s AI State of Mind
- Who runs America? Survey says…
- 02/07/2024 U.S. workers lose ground once again
- Ready for an Apple Vision Pro world?
- 02/06/2024 Taylor Swift and the Republican love affair with conspiracy theories
- Shaming Girl Scout cookies
- 02/05/2024 Some thoughts on the cultural phenomenon that is Taylor Swift
- 02/01/2024 Groundhog goofiness: Top ten cartoons of the week
- It’s always Trump’s fault, right?
- Did you really think TV would ditch ads?
- The yawn-inducing election of 2024
- 01/31/2024 Using the right Valentine’s Day questions?
- 01/30/2024 When memory flails
- Historic Miss America sidesteps controversy
- The sad future of AM radio
- 01/29/2024 Watching Biden’s abortion speech interrupted a Schadenfruede moment
- 01/25/2024 Haley vs. Trump: Top 10 cartoons of the week
- Trump looks pretty beatable. Just not by Nikki Haley.
- We need a leader in the White House, not a Biden
- 01/24/2024 Replace Joe Biden? Not with Gavin Newsom.
- Should students be bribed into attending classes?
- Medicare prescription price controls will hurt seniors
- 01/23/2024 In his lust for power, Trump once again turns to xenophobia
- When fun is against the law
- 01/22/2024 Pebble Beach benches celebrities
- About a lack of pride, and therefore a lack of shame
- 01/19/2024 Winter chill: Top ten cartoons of the week
- DeSantis won’t be saved by an angel
- 01/17/2024 How I became a cat person
- Do you suffer from the ‘stillgottas’?
- 01/16/2024 Trump and his dangerous ideas offer a mirror to too many Republicans
- Our over-coddled kids
- 01/15/2024 Not even the death of a mother is off limits in today’s politics
- 01/12/2024 Trump is already working to undermine the next election
- What’s the password? Top ten cartoons of the week
- Stop debating with yourselves, Republicans
- 01/10/2024 Biden can’t run on his record, so he’s running on Trump
- Been at your job too long?
- 01/09/2024 Making the best of the common cold
- The real reason Republicans are cheering
- 01/08/2024 Ex-Harvard president could learn something from new Philly mayor
- 01/04/2024 New Year’s resolutions: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Happy New Year, I hope
- In 2024, will border crisis accelerate or come under control?
- Three big reasons we can plausibly hope for a sunny 2024 election
- What’s driving Nikki Haley?
- 01/03/2024 Aaaaay! Is ‘Happy Days’ really turning 50?
- 01/02/2024 My New Year’s anti-resolutions
- The urgency to become cyber-secure in 2024
- 12/29/2023 Happy New Year: Top ten cartoons of the week
- 12/28/2023 Another ‘perfect’ phone call, this time in Michigan
- California is off the rails
- Tom Smothers was serious about politics
- Generation X is almost 60
- 12/27/2023 Biden gets a potential political rescue from Republicans
- Could you pass a citizenship test? Really?
- 12/26/2023 I got something wrong about John Fetterman, and want to apologize
- A win-win New Year’s resolution
- 12/21/2023 ‘Tis the season: Top ten cartoons of the week
- How my sister ‘gave’ us Sandra Day O’Connor
- Colorado’s top court read what the Constitution clearly says
- 12/20/2023 Will you be busted by a ‘noise camera’?
- 12/19/2023 War, Peace and the Spirit of Christmas
- Remembering the Mosquito Bowl on Christmas Eve 1944
- Where are the Republicans criticizing Trump’s repulsive comments?
- Haunted by the kids of Christmas past
- Restoring Christmas joy
- 12/18/2023 Jesus and his parents were not migrants in going to Bethlehem
- 12/14/2023 Christmas cheer: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Do voters even care if the House is broken beyond repair?
- Shut the open door to America
- 12/13/2023 I’m Dreaming of a Trump Cartoon Christmas
- What can the nativity teach us?
- 12/12/2023 Moment of truth coming for Republican presidential candidates
- Let’s make America profane again
- When Trump says he’ll be a dictator, believe him
- The MeToo movement is silent on Hamas
- 12/07/2023 Election choices: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Has the Party of Reagan become the Party of Quitters?
- The continued hypocrisy of so-called family values conservatives
- Chris Christie’s quixotic quest to talk sense to Republicans
- 12/06/2023 TV news puts its trust in women
- Will golf be recognizable in 20 years?
- 12/05/2023 Israelis Defend Fired Cartoonist
- The end of the Republican Party
- 12/04/2023 How to restore the gift of giving
- House gives traitorous Mayorkas a free pass
- I’ve tried to warm up to the pope, but he’s left us behind
- 11/30/2023 Holiday Malaise: Top Ten cartoons of the Week
- Taking a pass on the not-so-great debate
- Judge says Trump ‘engaged in an insurrection’ before making a curious ruling
- 11/29/2023 Would you like to sleep through Christmas?
- 11/28/2023 Biden continues to face political headwinds
- Trump words speak to the dark side of his supporters
- Neighbors, start your Christmas lights!
- Tips for Out of Control Tipping
- 11/27/2023 Thankfulness from another continent
- 11/24/2023 Thanksgiving leftovers: Top ten cartoons of the week
- 11/22/2023 Have you ever caused a scene?
- 11/21/2023 Congress needs to take action, or your taxes will be going up
- Trump as a “Cartoon Hitler”
- The Confederate flag remains a symbol of hate
- The delicious history of pumpkin pie
- 11/20/2023 Fed Up? Yes. Nasty? No.
- Indi Gregory’s death just another step toward a callous society
- 11/17/2023 Groundhog Day: Top ten cartoons of the week
- 11/16/2023 President Xi makes our homeless disappear
- Congress has become a wrestling ring
- Welcome to the world of MAGA machismo, where muscles trump brains
- 11/15/2023 Will 25-year milestone bring a second wind?
- 11/14/2023 Cartoonists are casualties of war, too
- Why do we fall for fall?
- Remembering a forgotten baseball scandal
- Footing our growing debt service bill
- 11/13/2023 For Republicans, it’s deja vu all over again
- Pro-abortion election victories cause for a shudder
- 11/10/2023 Salute the troops: Top ten cartoons of the week
- 11/09/2023 Scoring the GOP’s second stringers
- Wall Street and the overdue ‘green agenda’ market correction
- Farm bill must strengthen work requirements for food stamps
- The GOP’s shrinking junior varsity team has no clue what to do about abortion
- 11/08/2023 Only ‘a fool’ wouldn’t expect terrorism at an open border
- Organize any dog birthday parties lately?
- 11/07/2023 Israel and free speech at our nation’s universities
- 11/06/2023 More Republican candidates need to follow Pence’s lead
- Exposing ‘Bootgate’
- Defending Israel against rising anti-semitism is our fight
- 11/03/2023 Joe Biden continues to wreck our world
- Bad news: Top 10 cartoons of the week
- 11/02/2023 Did you hear about Speaker Mike and the dinosaurs on the Ark?
- 11/01/2023 Must I glue my eyes to the TV?
- 10/31/2023 The year of the possum
- A stylish way to improve men’s health and wellbeing
- 10/30/2023 Matt Gaetz is right about the new Republican Speaker
- Female Republican candidate hit with Democrat’s playbook attacks
- 10/26/2023 Bad news: Top ten cartoons of the week
- Mike who? Hello to a Republican loon who loves theocracy.
- Americans are being hurt by the politics of hate
- Are you ready for some fantasy football?
- 10/25/2023 Speaker fiasco an embarrassment for Republicans
- Should society slam on the brakes about this trend?
- 10/24/2023 The big omission in Biden’s Oval Office address