A quarter-century ago Sunday, "Gilmore Girls" starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel debuted on the WB. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Furloughed employees at the U.S. Department of Education said their government email accounts automatically sent out of office messages blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown, CNN reported on Thursday. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

“Like all new technologies, it’s difficult to say if these AI models are simply ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ They still make mistakes, so if people completely outsource their job to these tools and don’t bother to check the accuracy, that could lead to errors in theirwriting.” www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

65 years ago Friday, "The Andy Griffith Show" starring Andy Griffith, Don Knotts and Ron Howard debuted on CBS. The show would run for eight seasons, and then three more as "Mayberry R.F.D." My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

"The Far Side" by Gary Larson, Aug. 26, 1987.

By Tyson Cole of the New Yorker

Golly! Who could ever have foreseen this???

Your art direction must-read for this week. Gift article from the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

And here is some video from that stunner last night. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

The editor and most of the reporters at the Homer News, Peninsula Clarion, and the Juneau Empire resigned Monday after corporate management deleted content from a story about Charlie Kirk in response to a complaint from a Republican state lawmaker. www.juneauindependent.com/post/editor-...

60 years ago today, "The Flintstones" debuted as television's first prime-time animated series. It would last six seasons on ABC. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Looking for the violent? Look for the guns

9/30/2025- Choices www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/se...

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Between Oct. 1, 2024 -- the start of fiscal year 2025 -- and June 14, ICE had booked into detention 204,297 individuals. Of those book-ins, 65% had no criminal convictions. More than 93% were never convicted of any violent offenses. www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

Trump: ‘Another Thing Epstein And I Never Did Is Play Nude Charades’

The fire was caused by a faulty escalator. www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...

My second Further Review page in today's Spokesman-Review is a rerun from this past May. Jerry Seinfeld announced Friday he's coming to Spokane for the first time in 12 years next February.

The first fully-assembled home radio sets were advertised in the Pittsburgh Sun 105 years ago Monday. Before then, radio sets were all kits assembled at home. This is my first of two Further Review pages in today's Spokesman-Review.

Today's Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau

I had a cartoon exhibit some years ago. I posted this at the entrance My heart breaks every day

When Trump spews his bullshit about an American city, or university, or whatever, it’s vitally important that locals provide these simple but effective rebuttals

"Walmart executives aren’t sugarcoating the message: Artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and reshape its workforce. 'It’s very clear that AI is going to change literally every job,' Chief Executive Doug McMillon said this week." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/walm...

Pretty much.

Today at NewspaperDesign: Sónia Matos, Art Director at Público since 2006, shares insights on the newspaper’s design philosophy and Portuguese print culture. newspaperdesign.org/2025/09/26/d...

Spun off into its own series after four years on "Cavalcade of Stars" and "The Jackie Gleason Show," Gleason's "The Honeymooners" sitcom debuted 70 years ago next week. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

In Wednesday's Charleston (S.C.) Post & Courier was a heav- revised page I did last November for the Spokesman-Review on Western mystery novelist Craig Johnson, author of the "Longmire" books.

"I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this!" One of my all-time favorite science fiction movies, "The Martian" starring Matt Damon and directed by Ridley Scott, opened 10 years ago next week. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Do I have any friends in the Charleston area who read the Post & Courier? Did you see anything in today's paper that reminded you of my Further Review pages?

Historians and citizens who say they are concerned about the Trump administration's pressure on the Smithsonian are working to document exhibits, as they exist today, throughout the museum network.

The USS Enterprise -- the nation's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, not the starship -- was launched from the Navy's shipyard in Newport News, Virginia, 65 years ago Wednesday. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Teaching assistants in Florence, S.C., no longer assign kids to detention. Instead, they use “poop spray” on 'em... www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/21/t...

THANK GOD the man didn't throw a couple of tablets of Tylenol at Marine One.

Just wait: Tylenol's gonna pay Trump $10M, and he's gonna come out next week saying that actually it's Advil that causes autism.

According to a South African minister, the rapture will take place either Tuesday or Wednesday. Therefore, I leave you with the obvious... youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?...

Factcheck: True

Because of an expected government announcement Monday, here are the facts. The true facts. www.politifact.com/article/2025...

I'm surprised these returns happened so quickly and so efficiently. Most of our returns involve my wife having to drop them off at Kohl's ...

The Trump administration is terminating the federal government’s annual report on food insecurity in America, saying it had become “redundant, costly and politicized” and noting that “extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger.”

245 years ago today, the commander of West Point, N.Y. -- Gen. Benedict Arnold -- turned over war plans and other documents to a British major... who was then caught with those documents hidden in his boot. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.

Kannan Sundar, National Design Editor one of India’s leading newspapers, discusses how the Hindu shapes reader experience through visual storytelling. newspaperdesign.org/2025/09/19/d...

By Barry Blitt.

From last night's Stephen Colbert show... youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw?...

I just called Disney+ to cancel my account and had the most joyful interaction with an operator who was laughing the entire time about how many people had canceled today. I can only imagine how it feels to spend an entire day witnessing how many people want to stop fascism.

The Savannah Bananas are playing -- or performing? -- in Seattle tonight and Saturday. My second of two Further Review pages in today's Spokesman-Review explains just who are the Bananas and how Banana Ball is played.

It's yet another "Do you feel old yet?" moment for us all: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" debuted on CBS 55 years ago tonight. This is the first of two Further Review pages in today's Spokesman-Review.