Happy belated July 4, everyone! I hope you don’t mind that my blog is a little late this week. I had a hard time getting started: I guess my arms are still a little tired from hugging American flags.Good thing I can dictate this to my chief of staff, Wanda, who used what she calls “voice ...
Remember that time you tricked your kids into eating salad by putting what looked like cake frosting on it?Nor do I. Because it never happened.But now, thanks to the lunkheads in the Kraft Foods marketing department, you’ll be able to do just that.“Salad Frosting,” a short-run version of ...
On Memorial Day, no one really cares about anything except cooking out. What better time for a news quiz? Jump right in: We’ll keep the non-alcoholic beer cold and the tofu wienies hot for you.1. Alabama lawmakers passed the country’s most restrictive abortion law two weeks ago, and ...
I don’t know about you, but I’m totally down with the “willing suspension of disbelief.” Writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge (“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”) invented the term in 1817 in the preface to “Biographia Literaria.”In short, the concept means that you must be willing to ...
I’m a musician, so stories involving music and its effects on people intrigue me.For example, on Christmas Day 1989, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega holed up in the Vatican Embassy in Panama City after U.S. troops invaded the country. After surrounding the building, troops began ...
All I know for sure is, someone exceeded authority in my life. Maybe many times.I’m not exactly certain when it began, but I think it was probably in the early 1960s, after the long-haired Kennedy hippies took over Washington.Before then, I was just your average, crewcut, slightly overweight ...
