Obviously a very consequential day today. I don’t want to write anything political because I like to have readers and visitors of all...

I don’t write a lot about politics and current events here in order to avoid generating political arguments. (I am basically a mainstream...

Well, I was wrong about something. Last week I thought that the Republicans in the House of Representatives would have to turn to...

I follow politics pretty closely—I’m a mainstream Democrat—but I rarely write about it because it can be so divisive. But I just want to...

I’ve been aware of Elon Musk’s purchase and destruction of Twitter as it’s been going on the past few years. I didn’t follow it with...

Above: Joe Sikoryak, me, Ed Dennis and “the Godfather,” Craig Spaulding of Screen Archives, probably 15 years ago. I woke up this morning...

I read an article in New York magazine that’s way more interesting than it sounds: an exploration of the new LED light bulbs and why they...

I was a big comic-strip fan as a kid. When I was in grade school, I wanted to be a comic artist when I grew up. The first strip I was...

Like a lot of people I’m watching closely the midterm election results from yesterday. Crazy! I try not to talk about politics too much...

My hometown was in the news this past week, when Florida governor Ron DeSantis evidently arranged to lure under false pretenses newly...

I remember the Cold War, thinking that at any moment I’d go outside and see something like the above (a screen cap from The Day After)....

I try not to write about politics here. Not because I’m not interested; I follow it pretty closely. But I learned a long time ago, in...

If you’re interested in learning more about the terrible situation in Ukraine, here is a very insightful (albeit depressing) piece by...

I am certainly not going to be able to add anything meaningful to say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...but it seems important to...

I don’t often write about politics here because it never does any good. I could do without trolls finding and attacking me, and I don’t...

I was a young boy in the early 1980s, and I distinctly remember the dread of the Cold War—the feeling that any minute, now, we would look...

A few days ago I had a depressing experience when a reader—and apparently I can count my regular readers on one hand—posted a comment...

Above: the chair (the white glider) where I sat and watched the news on 9–11. I once had an Internet date with a young woman who dabbled...