Time to think about burning witches again in small-minded America. Classrooms, as all right-thinking Republicanite Boards of Education know (or…
On a More Personal Note
It’s Not a Baseball Hall of Fame Without Pete Rose
A short trek down memory-lane for those of you who don’t remember back as far as the 1960s through 1980s.…
Yesterday’s Wine and the Things That Move Me to Tears
Yesterday’s Wine is a Willie Nelson song. It’s no secret that Willie is a musical touchstone for me. Always has…
The Burlesque of Pete Rose’s Ethical Doghouse
Looks like pretty small potatoes now, the overwhelmingly righteous and never-ending woodshedding of an American great in America’s national game.…
Back Off a Bit, You’re Breaking My Leg
When Jefferson and Madison wrote into the law of Virginia (in 1777) freedom of as well as freedom from organized…
Carry-On Luggage? Who Needs It?
Come to think of it, flying without any kind of hand baggage might just be a pleasure. All those exasperated…
What Happened to PragueWriter?
In case you’re looking for the old PragueWriter site. Just a note to my hundreds of thousands of admirers who…
State Fairs and Butter-Cows
The Ohio State Fair and its famous ‘Butter Cow’ bring a needed moment of faith and clarity back to what…
Why Not Just Shoot Network TV and Get it Over With
What a long, long slide downhill it’s been from Walter Cronkite retiring with total domination of the nightly news, to…
Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Andrew Carnegie
The big news is that Warren Buffett has decided to give away most of his wealth. And the manner in…