Halfway There

Looking too closely The front page of the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday, August 25, 2015, made it perfectly clear: The stock marke...

The truth is way out there Oh, look what I found in the archives! While rifling through a stack of old print-outs (yes, some of them ev...

An apple distance record? I have always read Dear Abby for the humor. I still do. Of course, when the column's originator, Pauline ...

No vaccine for stupidity Even before the recent news flurry over anti-vaccine spokesmodel Jenny McCarthy and the status of her son...

Where is an editor when you need one? Perusing the San Francisco Chronicle over breakfast this morning, I lit upon an article on the i...

Non carpe diem If it weren't Saturday, my reaction would have been different. Cartoonists like Stephan Pastis have confessed that S...

Déjà vu with Lucy Van Pelt In place of the “eternal feminine,” Lucy from the Peanuts comic strip provides us with the “eternal fussbudg...

Armored with irrationality Ruben Navarrette was outraged by the behavior of some people in the wake of the massacre of schoolchildren in...

Idiots write letters There's nothing like a successful space mission to set off the smugly ignorant. “Think about the children !” th...

Darn! Missed again! San Francisco Chronicle writer Jon Carroll has a quirky way of signing off at the end of  each of his columns. He e...

Dear Abby says, “Flee!” Jeanne Phillips received an urgent query from a distraught teenage girl. What will Dear Abby advise a 14-year-ol...

If you have to say it— Yesterday the Sacramento Bee ran a front-page photo of the traditional welcome-kiss marking the return of the Oak ...

A little arithmetic would help Did you know that newspaper editors often lay rough hands on the work of their syndicated columnists? It...

And so do we I always look at the comic sections of the newspapers I read, but I don't necessarily look at all of the comics. “Pearls ...

Hold the oxy A letter-writer to the Sacramento Bee has earned my stunned admiration. In criticizing the Occupy Wall Street protesters, t...

A confused letter-writing campaign The California state legislature is in Democratic hands, so it's trying to protect public-school te...

Missed opportunities Perhaps I should stop reading Dear Abby . I sense danger. It's gotten to the point that I can't peruse Jeanne...

The curdled milk of human kindness The April 6 front page of The Sacramento Bee paid tribute to spring with a peculiar headline concernin...

The San Francisco Chronicle 's “Bad Reporter,” Don Asmussen , neatly pots the crazy Minnesota congresswoman with an anticipatory cartoon...

Get well, Allen Wright I hope Allen Wright beats the odds and experiences a full recovery from the hit-and-run accident that put him in th...