Face-to-face with the ultimate pit viper.  (cartoon by Geoff Hassing)

Next week I'll share the story behind this cartoon.

As one of the top 10 living underwear journalists in Indiana, I'm always on the lookout for new under-the-radar underwear stories.  And unlike those lazy underwear journalists who've built their careers on reviewing low-tech undies that don't serve a larger social function or are pleasant to wear, I go the extra mile.

There's no pair of underwear I won't test drive.

I wish that my career path would've worked out better.  Say, that I became a traveling journalist who went places and wrote about ...

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This doesn't surprise me.   And it's not because I think Sarah Palin is full of moose crap, it's because no one fact-checked my book except me.  Mind you, I did it over and over again until I wanted to rip my eyeballs out.

When David Sedaris wrote about buying a box of condoms in the New Yorker a fact-checker called...

As hostage-takers go, they were okay.  I got four square meals a day and my own room.  But I wasn't able to go anywhere on my own.  If I wanted to go for a walk someone went with me.  If I wanted to see the city, a monk took me to Madame Tousseau's as if that was all there was to be seen.

Monks are supposed to be peaceful, but their torture was particularly sinister.  Hour ...

I was an unofficial international ambassador of baseball in this country.

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…footage of undocumented migrants, healthcare providers, NGO workers, religious members and citizens of marginalized communities…an effort to present the depth and breadth of issues that surround the U.S./Mexico border… documenting the issues that seem almost omnipresent along the...