Maxed Out

Another year come and gone. Good riddance, 2018. You left us all a bit poorer, more cynical, beset by the Four Horsemen of tribal politics, social warriorism, unending victimhood and proto-fascism taking root around the world. Nice work.

Whistler's most notable news stories of last year

"God rest ye merry, gentlemen Let nothing you dismay" Nothing? Rest? Gentlemen? Are you serious? For starters, you misogynistic Neanderthal, it's Gentlewoman , or Gentleperson , but preferably just women since gentlemen get to rest all the time w

After last week's attempt at developing a new alphabet, where every incidence of the letters "io" and "il" came out, seemingly randomly as either Õ or Š in the print version of Pique , I'm having even more serious doubts about self-driv

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair You may not have noticed it, but for just a moment over the weekend, the Earth stopped spinning on its axis.

On the patio, enjoying the momentary reprieve from our recent biblical rain, watching a dark, end-of-the-world bank of clouds consume the landscape west of us, the vanguard of yet another storm front holding the hint of a promise of face-shots someti

So little time; so much procrastination. If you are a terminal procrastinator, latent or blatant, the only thing worse than a project with a deadline so far in the future it's barely visible is a project with no deadline at all.

Those who know and measure such things say one of the reasons women are tougher than men is because they may, during their lifetime, experience childbirth.

There is an axiom in politics that says, "Nobody doesn't beat Somebody." In its purest form, it refers to a bizarre, hybrid election held in some U.S. states to elect judges.

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling." - Chicken Little Of course, the sky wasn't falling. It was an acorn that bonked Chicken Little on the noggin and set off her course of hysterics.