I'll be taking a break from the blog for awhile.

Friday, my Valentine took me to CORTEO, Cirque du Soleil's traveling show. The opening line of the show is, "Last night I dreamt ...

One of the problems with surprise birthday parties is that they are, at some level, not really surprises. After all, the target of the surpr...

Using the military to work out a political situation in Iraq is like arm wrestling one's way though a calculus problem. Cartoon by B. Kl...