by John L Micek

I am writing this 35,000 feet above the ground and going at 300 mph. Hopefully I complete this column before I reach home or my editor’s deadline, whichever comes first. I’m on a flight from Las Vegas to Newark, finishing a vacation. When vacati..

December 10, 2025

Could there be fewer ‘less fortunate’ next Christmas?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree Forty-something years ago, my parents and I created an indelible Christmas memory (although for years I misremembered which ABC Sunday Night Movie I missed because of the event). Operating in the basement of a former retail s..

On occasion of her birthday it’s time to go from A to Z

My mother used to tell me that I was incapable of having an unexpressed thought, which was her adorable way of saying I talked too much. But Lucy was right. Rarely do I formulate an opinion that I do not end up sharing with at least a few other peop..

December 9, 2025

The 25th Amendment has been rendered meaningless

Imagine your boss at work were to doze off in the middle of meetings, waking up just long enough to spew racist insults at an entire minority group (“garbage!”) before reconnecting with dreamland. Or was notorious for sliming women as “stupid�..

What 90 years of Harvard research says about happiness

Wealth, fame and success still don’t make us happy — but strong relationships do. That has been the consistent message from the Harvard Study of Adult Development — the longest-running scientific study of adult life in the world. The study beg..

December 8, 2025

Christmas rush: Top ten cartoons of the week

Feeling festive yet? It's hard to escape the suffocating grasp of Christmas, which seems to show up earlier and earlier this year. No wonder editors flocked to download Pat Bagley's funny cartoon about a Thanksgiving turkey getting hooked off the sta..

December 4, 2025

Exposing the liberal media’s sloppy hoaxes

Making Sense By Michael Reagan The old legacy media has not just become irrelevant, it doesn’t inform us anymore. It disinforms. Two fresh examples of the mainstream media’s permanent get-Trump bias came this week, courtesy of the New York Times..

Some music makes me mad

Some people like mumble rap. Those people should nuhsaluhnayl. I’m sorry, I meant ohuminanuh. Okay, I’m done with the joke. It’s tempting to mash the keyboard one more time, but I’m no meshugana. I promise that’s a real word, even if it do..

Reexamining ‘The Breakfast Club’ after 40 years

It's hard to believe "The Breakfast Club," the beloved film featuring a group of insecure, suburban Chicago high school teenagers forced to spend detention together, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Starring Molly Ringwald (Claire the princess),..

Are search engines destroying the magic of Christmas?

Tyrades! by Danny Tyree The World Book Encyclopedia was the first challenge to my faith in Santa Claus. Its matter-of-fact description of Saint Nick as “mythical” had my father performing mental gymnastics. Luckily, given the encyclopedia’s no..

December 3, 2025

Failing at fitness

If my body were a temple, the bricks would be glued together with Cheez Whiz. Okay, so sometimes I eat radishes and kale in between almost never-ending portions of hamburgers and leftover Chinese food. But the leftovers run out from time to time. He..

December 2, 2025

(Esthetically unattractive) profiles in courage

I never liked John Fetterman. He was too far to the left, or so I thought. Too weird. Too much of a narcissist who did things the way that he did them to attract attention, without respecting tradition, or sartorial expectations. I also never liked ..

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