River Vices

        Last night I watched a 1944 Hollywood movie I’m from Arkansas . It is what was called a “B movie,” meaning it was low-budget,...

Melania Trump's colorful, $51,500 jacket        As is generally known the acronym PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...

The 1810 House           There is  an op-ed piece by David Leonhardt in  The New York Times dated May 25, 2017, titled “The Assa...

            Exhibition of Mark Rothko's Black Paintings                      at the National Gallery of Art A poem can’t ...

Winking the eye happens everywhere, early morning, at noon, not just at night. Winking the eye’s a meme in Shakespeare, the me and...

Et tu, McCain? The above photo of independent-minded Senator John McCain suggests the big tie addiction is pervasive in all win...

The Sitting Manager in the Store Window  Tell me who's that smiling store-window dummy, that  crooked chair warmer with...

Senior citizen jogging A news report over the weekend reminded us what is generally well known even if often ignored. Exercise is g...

Screen showing the 35% Democrat-Independent crossover vote       Perhaps the biggest late night revelation about Ohio’s Republican and...

"If politics is the art of the possible, the scowling, cranky, choleric,  septuagenarian Sanders is a somewhat impossible candid...

Photo by Bo Mohl         As we approach the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the first volume of ...

Jeb Bush blithely steps on stage while Trump and Carson,  who had previously been announced, stand dumbfounded in the wings.  ...

[ In view of the recent indictment of a SOLACE officer, I am reposting a piece I wrote on SOLACE'S connection with the putative anti-dru...

      Our piggish city manager is at it again. Here is the  overly generous package he received when he was hired in 2013—an annual ...

Iz thare 'nother sity in 'merica that haz more relijion and less moral'ty than Porchmuth, or haz the...

[ It has been ten years since I coined the phrase "No building left behind" policy of Portsmouth real estate. The two principle ex...