Counterlight's Peculiars

Will Rogers once said that America was the first country in history to drive to the poorhouse in a car.  Now, I think we'll be pushing o...

Did I just hear something crash? I wonder if there will be another Edward Gibbon looking out over the ruins of New York (or Chicago or Bosto...

I tell ya, you just can't make this stuff up. No wonder the tee vee loves the religious right wingnuts. They're such an endless f...

He looked good He was good Paul Newman RIP

Kaethe Kollwitz, Mother and Dead Child , etching, 1903 Kaethe Kollwitz, "Sharpening The Scythe" from T he Peasants' War , etch...

"So what we now have is non-functional government in the face of a major crisis, because Congress includes a quorum of crazies and nobo...

Here is the lost alternative ending to this beloved holiday classic. It just seems appropriate somehow. Tip of the artist's beret to Atr...