Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleTop Comments: a case of Noblesse Oblige edition
A look at the responsibilities that many at the top spurn …. but not one gent in particular, after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos....
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleTop Comments: the Harvey Haddix edition
What should have been baseball’s greatest pitching performance … undone by both bad luck ….. and a cruel decision years later, after the jump ….But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
CHEERS to Bill and Michael in PWM, our Wyoming-based friend Irish Patti and ...... well, each of you at Cheers and Jeers. Have a fabulous weekend .... and week ahead.ART NOTES — an exhibition entitled...
View ArticleTop Comments: the S.E. Hinton edition
A look at a writer who changed the world of young adult fiction in America, after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (alas, unable to post a "Who Lost?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with the return of the "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleTop Comments: the Conservative Empathy edition
A look at our friends across-the-aisle … who move from abstraction to action when things-get-real, after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleTop Comments: the Magnus Carlsen/Bobby Fischer edition
A story that one should not see as an East-West battle … but I can’t help doing so, after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
CHEERS to Bill and Michael in PWM, our Wyoming-based friend Irish Patti and ...... well, each of you at Cheers and Jeers. Have a fabulous weekend .... and week ahead.ART NOTES — more than 90 paintings...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleRIP Lawrence Colburn, last surviving member of the Heroes of My Lai trio,...
Over four years ago, I dedicated a Top Comments diary to Hugh Thompson, the leader of an Army helicopter trio who helped stop the My Lai massacre. For his efforts, they were ostracized, received hate...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
View ArticleTop Comments: Christmas Week Birthdays edition
Our latest holiday birthday bash, after the jump …. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are...
View ArticleOdds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)
I post a weekly diary of historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I often feature in "Cheers...
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