It's Harder Not To

Even outside his plays, Neil Simon put forward the proposition that some words were funnier than others. A summation of this idea appears i...

A time-and-a-half ago I decided to buy some dolls representing famous figures. These were offered for sale at our local art museum gift sho...

With mathematical precision, the detective narrows down the list of potential suspects, placing each into a Venn diagram of motive, means, ...

I now understand why Russia is such a large country: the Russians need a lot of room to store their novels. Being a practical people, they ...

The recent appearance of Dr. Ford before the U.S. Senate inspired this mix of thoughts which I've been churning in the cement barrel o...

Frederick Knott wrote three plays during his career. These were clever mysteries, carefully plotted, with whiplash twists. Two, his first a...

U.S.-Mexican border cities have been experiencing a historically low rate of violent crimes, at least through 2016, the most recent year wit...

In a previous post, I looked at the rates of violent crimes in border states. Those states bordering Mexico have had a huge drop in viole...