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October 2025

Let Them Eat Hors d’oeuvres
So Donald Trump lies and says he won’t touch the East Wing to build his ballroom and then tears it down anyway and the people who would make excuses for…
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The Patchwork Essay
During my career, on more than one occasion, someone would marvel at my ability to generate six cartoons a week (I never said they were six good…
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Don’t Hold Your Breath
The following photo is Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell is lurking in the background, which at this point in time seemed to be…
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An Understandable Mistake
In what seems like the premise of a bad Saturday Night Live sketch which these days describes most of them, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, issued…
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The French Bulldog of Politics
Be careful what you wish for...
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Cult Classics—Part 2
Good news: You can join a cult that doesn't serve Kool-Aid...
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Worse Than Portland
An essay about places that have gone wild...
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How Playoff Baseball Is Different
What got you to the postseason might not work once you get there…
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My Off/Scure Movie Recommendations
As regular readers already know, I make a lot of movie references and semi-recently a reader asked me to name my 25 favorite movies, but my first…
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Open 24/7
In the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor Robert Redford plays a CIA researcher who thinks someone is trying to kill him (only because they are) and…
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2015 WORLD SERIES: Game 5-Royals 7, Mets 2
So the Royals come back and win Game 4 and later that night I’m walking from the ballpark to the train station with a Kansas City Star co-worker…
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