“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink …” About 70 percent of the world is covered by water, and nearly 97 percent of it is in the oceans. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in his “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” we can’t drink the oceans. We sure can pollute them, though. Did you ever …
Let’s get one question out of the way right away. The photo at the beginning of this piece is not fake, photo-shopped or altered in any way. It’s a picture of America’s two most infamous celebrities — together. Yes, it was taken sometime back in the past, before O.J. Simpson got away with it and …
Reposted with an update at the end. One of the saddest things in life is when something doesn’t live up to your expectations. My earliest memory of a big disappointment was in the summer of 1966. I was 16 that summer, and I had been looking forward to the movie “Modesty Blaise,” a spy spoof …
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You can’t ride with the cops and root for the robbers. And if you become inciter in chief to the insurrection, you can’t expect to be on the payroll as the commander in chief for the Union.” Jamie Raskin nailed it. In explaining why Donald Trump is guilty and should be convicted, he left the …
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Sometimes things happen. A couple of days ago, half of my home page disappeared. To get things back to normal, I had to ask the company that runs my site to fix it, which meant restoring to an earlier date. That’s why the most recent blog is one from January 30th and everything since is …
When a dog wants to show submissiveness, he lays down on his back and shows you his belly. When a politician wants to show submissiveness, he gets on a plane, flies to Florida and meets with Donald Trump at his cheesy country club. As William Faulkner once said, the past isn’t dead. It isn’t even …
It was 35 years ago today, my last winter working in St. Louis. I was working mostly nights, getting home after midnight and then watching old movies for a couple of hours until I was ready to sleep. I would usually sleep till noon and then kill a couple of hours before leaving for work. …
When I heard the story of how Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and apologized to a young reporter for remarks he made after the Blue Devils’ loss at Louisville last week, it took me back. Not so much to memories of Coach K. My path only crossed his twice in a decade and a half …
“It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you’re sincere …” I’m pretty sure nothing that Charles Schulz wrote for his beloved comic strip “Peanuts” has been as vilified as this statement Linus Van Pelt made about his love for the Great Pumpkin. Of course it’s the fundamentalists who loathe it. They think Schulz …
Short takes from a journey through a disorganized mind: During my years as a newspaper columnist, I wound up with a lot of topics that were interesting but not interesting enough to fill an entire column. That’s where “short takes” came from. Lately there seem to be a lot of mildly interesting things, so I’m …
