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Some of you out there may be too young to remember Amadou Diallo, but I’ve been thinking of him a lot. He was a twenty-three-year-old immigrant from Guinea who was shot and killed on the steps of his apartment building[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Have you ever seen a live sand dollar? I haven’t, but in researching them I learned that many species look like delicious baked goods, such as Echinocyamus pusillus, which resembles a coconut macaroon. I’m not the only one who thinks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Why do you lash out?” is my favorite response to a bad joke. I freely admit that I stole it, like so many other things, from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Mike says it in response to Crow’s remark that monorail[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After nine years the cat finally gets to stay on the seder plate, but only for now. Who ever heard of a paschal cat?
If you don’t know about Don Marquis, about a hundred years ago he wrote a series of poems from the point of view of Archy, a cockroach who was the reincarnation of a human poet. Archy was able, with great[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Honestly, it’s probably more in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day to be serious and stay home than it is to go out and get drunk. For more rollicking fun with Catholicism, check out my evergreen (see what I did[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…