“Dying is easy, comedy is hard …” The author of the quote that led to this line isn’t known as a comedian. Actor Edmund Gwenn is best remembered for his role as Santa Claus in the original “Miracle on 34th Street,” but when he was on his deathbed, a friend visited him and said, “This …
I was 15 in January of 1965, the first time since we had moved to Virginia that there was a presidential inauguration. There is so much I don’t remember about details, but I remember my sister Laura and I were in the Capitol Hill area to see the ceremonies. The crowd was maybe the biggest …
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose …” We hear a lot these days about slippery slopes. If we allow this, then this and this and this will follow. Well, same-sex marriage didn’t lead to marrying children or farm animals, things those opposed told us were certain to happen. Not yet, anyway. And …
“Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.” File this one under the heading of It’ll Never Happen but It Should. I find myself thinking the last couple of days about what if anything Donald Trump could do to redeem himself. Don’t get me wrong, there’s no way he’s going to change the fact that he’s …
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6MWE? Until a couple of days ago, I had never heard of this vile expression. Then came the January 6th Trump-backed attack on the Capitol and I saw this on some tee shirts. I had no idea what it meant, so I looked it up. Six Million Wasn’t Enough. It always comes back to the …
Cosplay — the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game. When I looked at the pictures and watched some of the video footage of last Wednesday’s Trump-incited riot at the U.S. Capitol, I felt very old. Not so much by what happened, although the attack on the Capitol …
“If you don’t back the Electoral College challenges, I will do a number on you …” I don’t particularly like Kelly Loeffler, but something happened to her last week that shouldn’t happen to anyone. It was the night before her runoff election with Raphael Warnock for one of the two Georgia Senate seats, and President …
When we moved from Ohio to Virginia in 1963, one of our new neighbors was a congressman from Ohio. Delbert Latta represented his northwest Ohio from 1959-89, and one of the things followers of politics might remember him for was the 1981 Gramm-Latta Omnibus Reconciliation Bill, which cleared the way for much of President Reagan’s …
One thing about getting older that’s not much fun is thinking about all the things that aren’t around anymore. One of the saddest sights I ever saw came when I was driving on U.S. 30, the Lincoln Highway, west of Crestline, Ohio, in the late ’60s. While passing a small forest on the south side …
The first contact I had with Tommy Lasorda was in 1983 in Philadelphia. I don’t remember why I was there, what I was expecting to write about, but it was only the second time I had been in a major league press box. It was an uneventful game in an uneventful season, but it contained …
