Earl Fowler To mark the 40th anniversary of the movie The Big Chill — which hit theatres on Sept. 28, 1983 — I did a piece for this blog...

Earl Fowler 1) You start out googling something in good faith. Want to know, for example, who that actress or singer or whatever she is,...

Earl Fowler They’re ba-a-a-a-c-k! And front! And back again! Seventy years later, the sound of fifties vocal sensation the 5 Neat Guys...

Earl Fowler Is Tug McGraw starting for the Mets? How many times a day do you think Mitch McConnell eats Cool Whip sandwiches or … um …...

Children! get ready It’s time to come home — Paul Simon, Wait Earl Fowler People, get ready. There’s some math a-comin’. Not the new...

Earl Fowler Plane crashes, poisonings, defenestrations, mines, drones and missiles, invasions of nations, brown paper packages tied up...

Earl Fowler You might have noticed that the song “Fat Bottomed Girls,” a celebration of women of breadth who take our breath away, has...

… the Pump Don’t Work ’Cause Time’s Vandals Took the Handle Earl Fowler Medley: All By Myself / Alone Again (Unnaturally) Too Fat Polka...

Of all those who start out in philosophy — not those who take it up for the sake of getting educated when they are young and then drop...

David Sherman Über genius X, formerly known as loud-mouth Elon Musk, had his stock-market darling Tesla designed to deceive drivers into...

Earl Fowler The thing that simultaneously gives me chills and leaves my cockles coming in colours everywhere — what with Sir Mick Jagger...

EARL FOWLER The Canadian Press HORNBY ISLAND, B.C. — A onetime colleague has been arrested in connection with the death of Canada’s first...

Hyman Weisbord ST. HIPPOLYTE — Hi There. I don’t know the physics of it, but two days of rain have given us relief from the smoke in the...

Frank Mackey Wherein Coelecanth Botemfieder coaxes his son to leave the lagoon, crawl up on land, evolve, you know, be a man If only fish...

Earl Fowler It is patriotic to be stupid. It is patriotic to know only one language. It is patriotic to know a little about your own...

Earl Fowler Apologies in advance, but to comply with Alliance Defending Freedom dictums and Moms for Liberty fiats to which six of nine...

Earl Fowler Practical jokes — especially the ones that unfold organically, without any intention or planning — are one of the key...

Bob Morrissey Several days after leaving (Emily), I emailed Mary before checking out of the (Heartbreak Hotel) where I was (drowning in...

Earl Fowler And so it occurs to me that 50 years ago on Father’s Day, I finished reading the novel Kurt Vonnegut Jr. had written while...

Bob Morrissey I don’t mean to sound cranky, but this getting old business is quickly getting old. Do the aches and pains ever leave? When...