If the world weren’t at stake, it would be the most hilarious situation comedy ever, despite the cheap laughs and obvious absurdity.

Here’s some good news, really good news, and no, this isn’t a joke.

It’s virus season, this time more worrisome than it is most years. But there’s a lot we can do, easily, to remain uninfected so as to avoid the common cold, the flu, and, now, the newly emerged and sometimes fatal Chinese coronavirus that has allowed television newscasters to enter a whole n…

Before the magazine industry entered its current collapse, there were slick monthly publications on just about every area of interest, among them photography.

Let us discuss the word “historic.” It gets flung around a lot, primarily by news personalities who want their reports to seem more important than perhaps they are.

The power stayed on; that was something. There are plenty of times when it didn’t.

Tomorrow is the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles, which brought formal end to World War I, sort of.

The monkey hangers voted Labour. The rest of the country mostly didn’t.

So here we are, just a few days away from the last year of the second decade of the third millennium.

So here we are, in the final week of the annual orgy of spending money we don’t have on things that aren’t needed and often aren’t wanted by the people who receive them.

You could think of this column as four days late, but I prefer to view it as 362 days early, 2020 being a leap year.

Over the years I’ve come to appreciate accents, peculiar usage of words, and regional slang.

Until a couple of weeks ago I had never heard of Worcester, Massachusetts Fire Lt. Jason Menard. There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of him at all.

Well, that went by in a hurry.

One of the most fascinating stories of the last decade, to me, is the discovery and identification of the remains of Richard III, the last Yorkist king of England.