The 10 Tech Commandments
The original 10 Commandments served us well for quite some time, but in these Modern Times, I modestly propose an electronic update – 10 tech commandments – to the stone tablets Moses first delivered! Yes, […]
Cartoon: Muppets Announce 2020 Presidential Endorsement
Writer: Paul Lander Artist: Dan McConnell Cartoon: Muppets Announce 2020 Presidential Endorsement
Ask a Terrier: Not a Black Hole Lot of Excitement for Dogs
Budleigh the Terrier offers Professional Advice from a Licensed Dog. Dear Budleigh, I’m filled with awe and wonder that scientists have captured the first images ever of a supermassive black hole. Some describe it as […]
Don Miguel Quesadilla, Disgraced Notary Public
The man [Senor Fuentes] pitched upon to negotiate with Sotillo was a Notary Public, whom the Revolution had found languishing in the common jail on a charge of forging documents. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad I […]
My Poetic Nemesis
April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot, and as a poet he knew whereof he spake. (Archaic past tense provided at no extra charge.) April may be Poetry Month, but April is also the month in […]
On the Attack With the Fighting Russian Girlfriends
Pamela Toler’s Women Warriors: An Unexpected History highlights lesser-known women who have gone into battle, such as Maria Vasilyevna Oktiabrskaya, a Russian mechanic in World War II who drove a tank christened “The Fighting Girlfriend.” […]