What a horrible legacy we have left
I am writing this a couple of days after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. If history is any indicator, sadly, by the time...
Where was the outrage over foreign interference in our 2008 and 2012 elections?
You wouldn’t know it from the coverage in most of the media, but there were three main conclusions from the Justice Department’s indictment of...
High school sure has changed
So apparently I forget to pay attention for the past 13 or so years, and I woke up a few weeks ago to find...
Celebrations of love abound
The daughter of St. Valentine’s jailer, Asterius, was blind. According to legend, St. Valentine restored the young woman’s sight. She immediately fell in love...
Order now, pull around, figure it out later
Real conversations I’ve had lately at drive-thru restaurants…“I’ll have a Big Mac value meal with a diet Coke.”Pause.“I’m sorry. Was that a Quarter Pounder...
Humming ‘French fried eyeballs‘
It is almost spring. Well, maybe not the warm weather part of it, but full spring training workouts for Cincinnati Reds pitchers and catchers...
Time: Like a petal in the wind
One evening Brenda and I were in Cleveland sitting in a lounge when three Irishmen stood up and began to give advice in song...
Downplaying the House Intelligence memo; and James Comey is revealed
Many media pundits and Democrats at the national level are downplaying the House Intelligence Committee memo released Friday that details the politicized way in...
Guide to Super Bowl cheering
Well, here we go again.It’s another one of those Super Bowls.You know, it’s one of those Super Bowls in which you don’t really care...
Steve Jones makes one last tackle
He was raised by his grandmother in a trailer in Hoagland, his friends say, and if you didn’t know him well, you might have...
