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Dispatches and Marginalia from Michael DeVault

Or: On the joys of having four distinct seasons Growing up in Louisiana, I never experienced the slow march of the seasons. In

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been accused of being a Clintonista leftist and a Trump-loving hatemonger, of being a sexist and a

Or: How to Make the Perfect Pot of Beans for a Cold Tennessee Day It wasn’t so long ago that I didn’t own a

Or: Gravitational Waves and the Complex Economics of Higher Learning in America (Author’s Note: I began this post last night, but events of the

Every year since 2005, one of the hallmarks of January was a “Year in Review” story for whichever newspaper or magazine I found myself

God Save the King! Those are my sentiments today upon learning that U.S.-based Burger King, Inc. will buy Canadian donut slinger Tim Horton’s, a

Stopped Clocks Or: God’s been talking through Jackasses since the Book of Numbers Ann Coulter is almost 100% wrong all the time. Anytime I

When I was 14, I met Joe DiMaggio. He was sitting in the front row of an arena, listening to a speech by then-Arkansas

Today, I made the mistake of tuning into the Rush Limbaugh program and just so happened to catch El Rushbo opining what he sees

Or: That moment when you quit fighting and join the party For years, my friend Matt Courtman insisted that my best works weren’t my