A Shroud of Thoughts

Yesterday the space shuttle Discovery had a successful launch. It's the first shuttle mission since the Columbia Disaster happened in ...

The heat wave just broke here in Randolph County. It's now a nice 67 degrees (very cool for a mid-Missouri July evening). The drought ma...

The past week the big news stories have centred on Karl Rove, Harry Potter, John Roberts, and Lance Armstrong, but it seems to me that this ...

James Doohan, best known for playing Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek , died yesterday of pneumonia at the age of 85. Doohan had ...

On hot, July days like today, I think there can be only a few things better than a nice, cold bowl of ice cream. I'm probably not alone ...

Billy Wilder is one of my all time favourite screenwriters and directors. Indeed, I doubt very many critics and film buffs would disagree wi...

It seems that July 2005 has not been a particularly good month for Alfred Hitchcock's screenwriters. Ernest Lehman, who wrote North by N...