We don't need the ladies cryin' 'cause the story's sad.

I hope this isn't going to interfere with Al Gore's retirement planning.

The "Les Mis" flash mob gag has spread so wide you can find dozens of YouTube examples.  They don't always have great voices, ...

Those of you who've had quite enough shape-note music from me lately ought not to click on this one. Just so everyone will know, I...

My father sends: "Texas brothers standing guard over the fallen in West." This is how it was of old. Do you remember how mu...

That's it, 7:45 Central.

The news has me down. I recognize many faces in that crowd.  The fellow in the middle in one-quarter view is Gaylon Powell, a good frien...

When was the last time you heard such a cogent and devastating speech from an American politician?

In what one commentator at Maggie's Farm correctly identifies as "the therapeutic approach to evil," NPR ran radio interviews...

What happens to a Reuters staffer who inadvertently publishes a decidedly unflattering canned obituary about an unimaginably wealthy, ruthl...

Almost as soon as the news hit about the explosion in West, Texas, reports agreed that anhydrous ammonia was involved, and I began hearing h...

I like the way the crowd took over from the professional singer, with his encouragement.  (The anthem is after the pop-music photo montage, ...

If you'd written a movie in which the terrorist attempting to assassinate government officials was an Elvis impersonator , you'd hav...

Apparently it's possible to score 65 runs in three innings , if they last so long that the game has to be called on account of encroachi...

A fertilizer plant has blown up in Waco .  No reason to suggest it was deliberate, but it's very bad--many square blocks "leveled....

Bad day at Black Rock for gun control bills in the Senate. Some appropriate music:

That's a New Euro, or perhaps a Northern Euro.  They're going to need one soon. In " The Wreck of the Euro " (hey, that ...

NPR has a report about, as well as an opportunity to listen to, a new album by the above-named artists . Steve Martin is actually quite a b...

I don't want to say much about Boston until there are facts to discuss, but I do agree with PowerLine here. It is good to see citizens...