There have been some interesting updates of late in the case of Adam Race, the autistic boy who was banned from the Bertha, Minnesota “Church of St. Joseph” by its […]

Joyce McKibben, Mayor City of Lithonia, GA Dear Ms. McKibben: Let me offer my congratulations. By overstepping your authority under the city’s charter and summarily firing your police chief, you […]

Most Americans remember the little monkey we read about in children’s books. Curious George is probably as much of a national phenomenon as Charlie Brown, at least among those of […]

I am in the control room of a recording studio in Florida, a cool oasis of air-conditioned comfort in a land otherwise enveloped in muggy unpleasantness. My hands rest on […]

Exhibit A: This morning, an eight-year-old second-grader was arrested, put in handcuffs, and taken to jail for punching his teacher. The story is here. The headline for it, on news […]

I haven’t written anything here in a while.  I’ve had some mixed feelings about the blog, but I decided to leave it up, if for nothing but historical interest.  However, […]

It was announced today that self-caricaturing idiot Cynthia McKinney will run for President of the United States. Some of you may have followed her semi-illiterate ramblings, her adventures allegedly assaulting […]

If you think the blog looks very different now, it’s not your imagination. It was brought to my attention last night that Internet Explorer 7 didn’t like my previous, heavily-modified […]

It is a day that we remember, and a day that we should remember. President Franklin Roosevelt pronounced this day “a date which will live in infamy.” On this day […]

It’s been some time since this blogger found himself tagged; that is to say, tasked with a blog entry whose topic is preordained by the poor unfortunate who was tagged […]

I have just been informed, much to my great relief and surprise, that I am not the World’s Worst Person. Certainly I ran a good race, but it seems that […]

We’ve known, I guess, since April that former CNN news anchor Paula Zahn and her husband of 20 years, real estate mogul Richard Cohen, were separating. We’ve also known that […]

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of commuters struggled to get to work Tuesday by bus, bike, cab and on foot as a subway workers’ strike stretched into a second […]

Recently, Allison has been struggling rather badly with an organization known as Vocational Rehabilitation. Her son is autistic, and while he’s extremely high-functioning, he’s going to require some assistance as […]

Down, damned emotions! Writing this on my phone is not working out at all. To be continued. Maybe.

[Edited to add guard David Boling’s name.] Every now and then, this blog serves as an outlet for one of my incidents of otherwise intractable outrage. Some time ago, I […]