The Clerk Manifesto

Yesterday some Twain quotes came up in my daily post. There were dozens of Twain quotes actually, because Twain was one of the greatest quot...

          Mark Twain once said: "I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe." Whi...

I am not good at humility.  I sometimes wish I was. And I suppose it is still possible for me to get better at it. If I try really hard. But...

        Did you know that more than 38,000 people die in car crashes in the U.S. every year? This is roughly the same number as the annual a...

As winter has come rolling in I have found less to photograph. All the greyed grey light doesn't help. Color has been steadily slipping ...

  I am out at the front desk of my library. Out through the Plexiglas that tries to protect me from coronaviruses, a library patron needed h...

        I went on to the Internet today to write a quick, not all that funny joke for you because you've been working so hard here learn...

  The greatest painting ever made is... Oh my god, this is so exciting! I'm on the edge of my seat! The greatest painting ever made is.....

  In part one yesterday, we explained with a reductive, marginally accurate simplicity, that the Renaissance was an elegant, spiritual, and ...

  Welcome. This is the inaugural post (one painting told in three parts!) of the Hundred Greatest Artworks of All Time, with each artwork be...

I just want to fit in in America. But I'm having a little trouble keeping up. And there were some official changes in the past week, so ...

  I am drawn to superlatives. I like numbers. And I like the unmitigated absolutism of "best". The best songwriter is Dylan. The b...

  Uh-oh. I feel a blog post coming on. But it's coming too fast! I can't control it. It's heading right at our heads, it's.....