This is a sordid tale of physics, Bessel functions, and the lengths we went to for a passing grade.

Anita Bryant discovered the power of cancel culture decades before there was an Internet.

An analysis of one of Norman Rockwell’s most brilliant magazine covers, The Homecoming.

A bio of our beloved cat, Jag.

A bio of our beloved cat, Boomer

This is the article I wrote in December 2014 upon the passing of my mother-in-law Lillian Cassidy.

Once, there were very few Dan Blanks out there. Not anymore…

There was a time when I was small and the Bad Man came for me.

The danblanks.com website debuted Internet July 14, 1998, back when the Internet was nothing but stone knives and bearskin rugs. Okay, the official “birthdate” of the Internet is listed as 1983. So the Internet had been around for a while. But was it useful to the average Joe? No, it was not. It was only…