Silverbacks and Silverbelles We Love
La llorona + IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
The Jungle is getting a new look ... that's the good news. The website will be offline for several days ... that's the bad. Not to wor...
Election Day Special: Reasons to Vote
Let’s celebrate, let’s hoot and holler,Let’s pat us on the backWe are living in a moral squalor;I hope we never go back
To a time wh...
Back to Business
Today's selection-- from The Almighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley. The use of scrip dollars in the Great Depression:
“In October 1932,...
What Americans Get Wrong about Canada
Our closest neighbour has never really understood us
by Paul Theroux Updated 23:22, Sep. 22, 2026 | Published 6:31, Sep...
Saturday Silliness: Odds and Sods
The Saudis are bombing the Houthis.McConnell is back from the dead.When Trump tried to tell the truth, heRelied on A.I. instead.
The...
The softness of metal
Keith Kahn-Harris
is a sociologist who combines freelance writing with an academic teaching and research career at institutions incl...
Stephen Morris’s Pants
Four friends laugh together in a park while wearing shirts asking, “Have you seen Stephen Morris’s pants?”
Inevitably, variations on...
Silverback Mark and A Quiet Cadence
[Here's a little known fact about me ... I am an honorary member of the Mount Saint Joseph Class of 1964. That's why I happened to be i...