Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

If you are one of my friends on Facebook, you already saw an earlier version of this last week ... this one has a few tweaks based on commen...

I'm getting tired of the endless, circular debates over my political posts, and I usually feel like this when the dust settles ... ...

What do you suppose the person who invented the walkie-talkie would have called other things if he (or she) had invented them? Postage St...

How do we remember and memorialize our most significant citizens? When the mighty pharaohs died in ancient Egypt, they were buried in hug...

You may have seen this great recent Bizarro cartoon ... The best part is the campaign slogan: "Make-Believe Leadership for a Ma...

Most of us, in the course of growing up and getting a basic education, learned the meaning of our state names. For instance, growing up in ...

I have learned over the years that my posts that deal with unusual topics tend to get higher readership statistics, have more readers and g...

One of the most useful tools available to those studying chemistry is the famous "Periodic Table" originally codified by the R...

My brother sends me a lot of e-mail, most of which is political and designed to get me spun up. He also sends a lot of funny stuff, most of...

Things had gotten so bad in American politics that God finally decided he needed to step in and sort things out. He invited former presiden...

When we moved into our house in 1992 and I adopted the front corner bedroom for use as my study, I quickly ran into a problem: in order to ...

Now that the Chicago Cubs, after a 108-year drought, have won the World Series , we need to come up with a new standard expression for thin...

I'm tired of thinking, so I thought I'd just share a few of the better Internet memes I've seen recently. Feel free to use as n...

Among all the insults and stupid comments that have been cast in the ongoing presidential campaign circus was the one launched by Marco Rub...

If you have never had the pleasure of reading through Ambrose Bierce's classic work The Devil's Dictionary , you ought to do so. Th...

One of my favorite publications, the old Mad Magazine, featured great satire, wonderful sight gags, great puns, and lots of features like ...

... and how we calculate it at Chez Bilbo ... I haven't found a similar chart yet for ink-on-paper books or crossword puzzles, b...

Yesterday we received our updated copy of the Northern Virginia South Edition of the Yellow Pages - for those of you in other countries, it...

Back on July 20th I published a post with some of the best cartoons and get-out-the-vote signs I'd seen so far for the current presiden...

A mid-sized city in the heartland of America had a problem - it was overrun with squirrels. The problem was particularly acute for the city...