It’s sort of funny. I was never really a fan of the Georgia Bulldogs, particularly in football. But if I had stayed in Anderson, S.C., for the 1984 football season, I would have had the opportunity to cover the beat. I didn’t, though, and Anderson ended up being a nine-month stay that separated a year …
Paris may or may not be my favorite city in the world, but it’s definitely in the top five. In no particular order, I’d say Paris, London, Venice, San Francisco and New York. I have never lived in any of those cities, but I have visited all of them at least twice. Venice would be …
For all we can tell from the photo above, the massive crowd was attending a huge patriotic rally at the old Madison Square Garden in New York City. The figure in the center is a great American, George Washington, and the banners mention “FREE AMERICANS” and “CHRISTIAN AMERICA.” The second one starts to give away …
I called up my favorite search engine only to be annoyed. Google usually has some sort of picture or video link telling us what significance this particular date on the calendar has, and today was no exception. I was informed that today was Stephen Hawking’s 80th birthday. My first reaction was that I thought he …
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” Today is the one-year anniversary of the insurrection Donald Trump …
Men don’t leave. Back in February 1990, when I was getting near the end of my 18 months living and working in Reno, an interesting movie came out starring Jessica Lange. It was called “Men Don’t Leave,” and it didn’t do all that much business. It was definitely quirky. Lange played a woman who had …
“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance, it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” Can …
Ah, the indignities of aging. It was more than 11 years ago and on the other side of the country when I had my first colonoscopy. I had suffered from a small amount of bleeding in a place humans aren’t supposed to bleed, and I had turned 60. Those were two pretty good reasons, and …
666,141 822,432, Two interesting numbers. Try to guess what they represent. If you follow the news, you might have a clue that the second one is the most recent total of the number of Americans who have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic two years ago. The first one isn’t as easy, …
“Sous les paves, la plage …” When my wife and I talk about 1968, it becomes apparent very quickly that what happened in France was far more significant than what happened here. I’m not talking about historical events. The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy had a horrible, long-lasting effect on our country, …
