Poor Katie Britt, the Republican senator from Alabama. She was set up by her party’s operatives to do the GOP’s...
Well, well, well – look who’s waking up and raring to go: Mr. and Ms. WOKE! We so-called “woke” people...
In 1863, humorist Artemus Ward wrote a satire on hucksterism, making up a tale of Abe Lincoln being asked to...
“Step right up, folks, and bite into the wondrous future of meat!” Cheap meat! Ethical meat! Animal meat you love...
I no longer receive my local newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. Oh, the paper still comes, but it’s just paper, minus...
In my view, the greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was not Washington or Jefferson – nor, technically, he wasn’t even...
Although the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its relentless glare. Sunglasses? Check. Beach...
“Corporate crises consultants” (yes, there are such creatures) have patented a formula allowing their wrongdoing clients to champion reform while...
Here’s our Big Word of the day: Extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state...
Bruce King, former governor of New Mexico, often baffled people with his convoluted use of words. Like the time he...