As a rule, I don’t post the trivia answers until at least ten people play. At this rate,  you may never know who said, "Get a mammogram, man!"
No Take Backs
Perhaps the process for electing a lieutenant governor is flawed. Maybe the position itself is irrelevant. And I most definitely don’t want Scott Lee Cohen [...]

"I thought AGP was dead. Found on Newegg I can get a 1gb video card for about $80. MW2 may have a chance yet!"
This was a recent Tweet by a friend of mine, the content of which wouldn’t be any less clear to me if it was written in Mandarin. Yet I don’t question his [...]

When writing the American Music Show preview, I considered sharing my thought that the show and the Taste of Springfield might have been better scheduled the week before or after the Fourth. My concern was that it would be competing with too many events, not the least of which are the traditional family-and-friends gatherings. It [...]

Don’t Shoot! It’s Rennie Stennett
The solution to maritime piracy would seem to be the arming of merchant ships. The method with which pirates board a ship, using hooks and ropes to scale the side, does leave them vulnerable to being picked off or winged. Yet with most solutions that involve fire power, there is a [...]

The Fourth Best Columnist, At Best
Well, it looks as if I didn’t win Best Columnist in the SJ-R’s Reader’s Choice Awards. When my last column inspired one reader to leave an online comment, I thought I might be able to ride that wave of popularity all the way to the award, but apparently I fell [...]