Book of Daze

If a nation can be judged by what it celebrates, the United States is messed up six ways to Sunday and back. To point a… Read More

Baltimore, MD—Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young urged citizens not to park near white vans because “evil, evil people in white vans” are trolling the city searching… Read More

Today is National Side Saddle Day, that noble observance in which we honor the brave riders—almost exclusively women—who once believed that dignity, modesty, and personal… Read More

Small Town America, who doesn’t love it … or at least the idea of it? Tree-lined streets with a church on every third corner; impish,… Read More

It’s a 1970s game show, a 1932 movie, and a late 1920s marketing ploy designed to bait people into using more matches. It’s three on… Read More

Do you remember what you were doing when George Harrison died eighteen years ago today? Of course not. Most people do not remember what they… Read More

What we casually refer to as Thanksgiving should properly be called You’re on Indian Land Day; but who wants to put up with drunken relatives, tryptophan poisoning, holiday… Read More

The never-ending resistance to the nanny state and to soccer moms everywhere is marked by small but sustaining victories. Folding, spindling, or mutilating where prohibited.… Read More