Mark Jacob

Reputed heterosexual Rodney Dangerfield once said: "My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met." Now homosexuals are gaining the same chance at misery or bliss. Same-sex...

As if the Obama administration didn't have enough trouble, First Lady Michelle Obama was criticized over the ticket sign-up system for the White House's Easter Egg Roll. In these scrambled...

Green is good, at least when it comes to the environment and to the dyeing of the Chicago River this weekend. So enjoy St. Patrick's Day with a green beer,...

This meeting of the Surnameless Club will now come to order. Membership, as the name implies, is limited to those people whose last name also is a common first name,...

Some impressive birthdays have been celebrated lately, including the 200th of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, who were born on the same day in 1809. Let's blow out 10 more...

1. George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration. 2. Perhaps the greatest myth of U.S. inauguration history is that William Henry Harrison's long speech in...

President-elect Barack Obama is more than a little obsessed with Abraham Lincoln. He announced his candidacy at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, where Lincoln delivered his "house divided" speech....

1. George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration. 2. Perhaps the greatest myth of U.S. inauguration history is that William Henry Harrison's long speech in...

1. George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration. 2. Perhaps the greatest myth of U.S. inauguration history is that William Henry Harrison's long speech in...