James Garfield is often portrayed as a good man in an age of bad governance, but the real story is a little more complicated.

It’s late August, and I am cracking up as I read a brand-new Garfield comic. Panel one: Garfield, lying belly-down in his cat bed and wrapped up in a blanket, wears a bored expression as he thinks, ...

It's been commonly noted -- by this reviewer among many others -- that Bill Murray would be entertaining even if he were reciting the tax tables. That thesis is just about put to the test in "Garfield ...