by John L Micek

Have you preserved 2025 for posterity?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree “I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died…no, wait, I was remembering the year Molly Farkle was diagnosed with plantar fasciitis. My bad.” - with apologies to country music legend Tom T. Hall. I gave up on maintain..

December 24, 2025

Beneath the dignity of a president

The old maxim is we are not allowed to speak ill of the dead. In Latin, because all Catholic school veterans understand that Latin makes everything more official, we say “De mortuis nil nisi bonum.” The direct translation there is a bit differen..

December 23, 2025

Mergers foster innovations that bring prices down

The Washington policymakers responsible for bad decisions causing the inflation that drove prices so high have left town. Those who took their place must find ways to reduce the gap between what we all earn and what we pay for the things we want and..

Rob Reiner’s overlooked relationship with the Black community

The horrific and senseless deaths of beloved Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry and across the nation. The couple’s son, Nick Reiner, faces two counts of first-degree murder, among o..

Holiday gratitude: Supporting the men and women who serve

Here’s something we can all do this holiday season: show heartfelt support for our men and women in uniform. There are currently about 2.1 million serving in the armed forces — 1.3 million on active duty and about 800,000 in the reserves. Roughl..

December 22, 2025

Remembering Rob Reiner and ‘The American President’

We all have our guilty pleasures - pigging out on potato chips, scrolling TikTok, binging old rom-coms - but for my money nothing beats sappy escapism, the kind that warms your comfort zone, that transports you far away from the here and now. Especi..

A.I. Anxieties: Top ten cartoons of the week

This week, critics pounced on Time magazine for naming the architects of artificial intelligence its person (people?) of the year. Our most-reprinted cartoon of the week, drawn by Dave Whamond, mocks the cover as something A.I. itself would come up w..

December 18, 2025

Australia’s fake gun control

Making Sense By Michael Reagan What a terrible bloody week it was. From Rhode Island to Australia, innocent unarmed people were killed in cold blood by evil men with guns. On Saturday at Brown University in Providence, a man with a common 9-mm handg..

Terrible teatimes

Some people are addicted to drugs. My family is addicted to tea. I think it’s hereditary. One of my ancestors put leaves in a cup of boiling water, tasted it, and found it good. Other people might think tea is terrible, and they have the right to ..

Homophobia remains a big issue among conservatives

There's an intense war going on at the moment among members of the online MAGA-verse, far-right figures who have been largely supportive of Donald Trump. From politics to religion to support for Trump, the MAGA community is in serious disarray over..

Podcaster lacks decency with vitriolic rant over Erika Kirk

I have never been married, which means I have never been widowed. I have, however, been around widows all my life, since the life expectancy for men in my family is significantly shorter than that of the ladies. Both of my grandmothers were widows f..

December 17, 2025

Are you expecting the Tooth Fairy for Christmas?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Most of us take it for granted that December should be a month for festive cheer, not wailing and gnashing of teeth. So I went for my semiannual dental cleaning with expectations that it would be the customary quick “See ya..

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