There’s good news today! You, I and everyone else reading this column will be long dead before Earth freezes, boils over or is otherwise taken off the Guinness Book of World Records’ list of “Longest Surviving Planets in Our Solar System.” So we needn’t worry: No one will be left to ...
I don’t like to do wrap-up columns about what big names left us or what events were the hallmarks of the year just past. I figure that you’ve had enough of 2021. I could make a bunch of highly improbable “predictions” for the coming year, but we all know that improbability is highly ...
I’ve been in malaise of sorts for a few weeks. Whatever it is, it is decidedly Romantic. I’ll explain.I was a big fan of the English Romantic poets when I studied them in college. Shelley, Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth and others were my pals. Even now – more than 50 years after my ...
It’s December, and I’m not yet in that holiday frame of mind. What better time to test readers’ knowledge of current events than with a yuletide News Quiz? Let’s begin!1. Seeking to drive a stake of holly through the hearts of any remaining Pittsburgh Pirates fans, the club traded Gold ...
I have a question for my male readers: How’s your masculinity? I ask because Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri thinks that masculinity – and not just his, but yours, mine and that of every man jack of us in America – is under attack. By “the Left,” he says.“The ...
This is an audience participation column. Put the thumb and index finger of one of your hands about a half-inch apart in front of your face. Concentrate on the distance between these digits.That’s how far I am from shunning social media forever. I have essentially abandoned Twitter, an ...
