Gene Weingarten, a longtime Washington Post journalist and two-time Pulitzer winner, picked a date at random (Dec. 28, 1986) and found a multitude of real-life stories, from all over the country. A ...

Players: Gene Weingarten, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post who doesn't understand lolcats (or readers' infatuation with lolcats); Ben Huh, CEO of meme network I Can ...

I am old and cranky. I write "Below the Beltway," a weekly humor column that is nationally syndicated. With my son Dan and David Clarke, I write the daily newspaper comic strip Barney & Clyde, about a ...

Regarding Gene Weingarten's Aug. 22 Magazine column, "The feminine mistake http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081305091.html": The ...

Stepping back 60 years, the author finds a day of sporting triumphs, from the historic ascent of an African–American baseball umpire to Bill Lawry’s local cricket club heroics.

I was on a bus recently in New York, returning to Manhattan after a fish dinner on an island near the Bronx docks, when three burly masked men boarded. They had angry-looking eyebrows and bazookas ...

It is said that everyone has a price, a sum of money large enough to corrupt his moral integrity. I always suspected that I might have a price, too, but was a little alarmed recently to discover it is ...