Christopher Orlet

Assuming you were not a “hooky boy” like yours truly, you probably learned in grammar school that the pamphlet Common…

From the Chicago Sun-Times news (not comics) pages. The Board of Alderman seek ban on tiny plastic baggies: Lt. Kevin…

The Daily Show is actually funny for once.

Blood & Rage: a Cultural History of Terrorism by Michael Burleigh Harper Collins, 320 pages It was like that scene…

Clapton and Winwood have reunited!

Counter-intuitive ideas make great headlines, especially ones like “The Coming Religious Peace.” Alan Wolfe’s essay that appeared in the March…

Since we’re reminiscing about the Great Man, Byron York in an Atlantic piece described WFB’s first visit to the American…

Two years ago Kurt Westergaard was in his Copenhagen home drawing pictures. One of them was of the “alleged” Muslim…

More on the Cult of Obama, aka MC B, the new Barackstar. heh.

If it is indeed true, as George Bernard Shaw commented, that democracy ensures we get the government we deserve, then…