Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

  We continue our annual tradition for the month of October of selecting cartoons and poems suitable for the Halloween season. The first of ...

As if the Halloween season weren't scary enough ... Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first stage of a Gaza peace agreement ; Der Furo...

First collection for October! Bring 'em on ... I'm not sure what an "ass fish" is, but I'm not sure I want to know ......

As you know, I usually present two Ass Clown awards each month - Right-Cheek and Left-Cheek - with a third, the On-Crack Award - presented i...

As a person who loves language, I'm always fascinated by the ways in which we use words to convey, clarify, or obfuscate information. Th...

Today is the first Musical Sunday of October, and - as we did yesterday with our Cartoon Saturday dedicated to Frankenstein - we begin our m...

A new month brings new challenges to our sanity ... Der Furor and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned more than 800 senior military lead...

Not without trepidation, we have entered the month of October, which does not augur any improvement over any of the previous nine months, bu...

I'll be 74 years old next month, and in all that time I've never seen Congress in such a mess. Neither party has leadership worthy o...

Today, September 30th, 2025, the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States delivered back-to-back speeches to a hastily-co...