GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher)

On Dec. 19, 2016, I checked into the local hospital sporting flu and heart problems and just today was released from a  durance vile. There ...

A bout of physical bumpiness saw Christmas come and go, though this perky jingle, passed along in email, added a little spice:

A sick day and simultaneously one on which Rachel Maddow's straight and searing analysis was passed along ... nothing serious, of course...

Here are some of the columns I did not write in 2016 – a kind of stocking-stuffer of ideas I was too research-averse to attack and parse...

Passed along in email: Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3 Professors Of Psychiatry Ask President Obama To Conduct ‘A Full Me...

Ben Moore, winner [ The Guardian ] The gorgeous little children of the Hamar tribe in southern Ethiopia were only too happy to make thi...

Others may find it dated and out of synch, but I ran into it again today and found that I enjoyed the smiles and determination of another er...

Yesterday, I whipped out a newspaper column that focused on the columns I had not written in 2016. It was the best I could manage. Where h...

At 8:30, the first sip of morning coffee Is as good as it is at 4:30. But at 4:30, It's better.

I suppose there are those who view U.S. President Barack Obama as another spin-doctor -- a wheedler and a conniver looking to pass the blame...

Just a couple of sillies in a world full of solemnities: -- Police in Hudson, N.Y., got whip-sawed into breaking into a car where an ov...

Fashion photos ... The Guardian Irving Penn, Mascara Wars, New York, 2001 ‘Companies spend millions of dollars developing breakthrough ...

Of all the human burdens, selfishness is the most irksome. And if you don't believe this, then please, choose another and use that.

This is old , but I missed it and thought it was worth the price of admission since listening to author Christopher Suprun speak on the car ...

A snippy-snappy day in which newscasters, who no longer have budgets that would allow for news casting, are predicting increasing cold, pett...

Though I haven't got the energy or brains to parse it, my sense is that the United States has sold out to its former arch-villain, Syr...

NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he has picked ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be secretary of ...

A US man who dresses up as Santa Claus fulfilled a dying boy's Christmas wish by visiting him at his bedside, before the youngste...

First demonstrable snow of the season -- five or six inches -- and I wonder if elephants wish they could walk as silently as snow flakes. ...

How many job applicants are encouraged to be good multi-taskers by the companies hoping to hire them? Are those companies hiring the dummi...

Stoicism is a school of philosophy which was founded in Athens in the early 3rd century and then progressed to Rome, where it became...

Edward Snowden has been the subject of several high-profile appeals this year, calling on Barack Obama to pardon the National Security...

A quarter of the US prison population, about 364,000 inmates, could have been spared imprisonment without meaningfully threatening publi...

Swimming up from the eddies and depths of sleep, it occurred to me that if there were a tailor-made descriptive for U.S. president-elect D...

Passed along in email:

Passed along in email:

"A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum recalls a time when portraits were seen as a way of remembering and celebrating li...

Ah, la cité de l'amour appears to have suffered a couple of setbacks   1. 'When Parisians are literally tripping over rats o...

A little silence never hurt anyone and so, as an early Christmas present, it might be nice to take a moment and just shut up. I don...