Below the Mason-Dixon line, “Negroes” were still being lynched.Yet, from 1955 until 1961, I and roughly 179 other elementary school kids stood each Friday morning in the vaulted, two-story foyer of our schoolhouse, built in 1895, to participate in choral singing. Accompanied on a ...
It’s a well-known fact that you can spot American tourists worldwide by their shiny white tennis shoes. Or shorts. Or sweatsuits. While there’s nothing wrong with casual dress, everyone’s definition of “casual” is different. Dockers and polo shirts at the office on Fridays is fine. ...
When the English language finally gives up the ghost, who will mourn it?I used to think that former English majors might stage a last stand, hunkering down in an abandoned coal tipple outside New Martinsville, W.Va. There, they could issue succinct, well-edited press releases that contained no ...
The Pirates’ home opener is today, and you can almost feel the air being sucked through the Liberty, Fort Pitt and Squirrel Hill tunnels by the collective sigh of fans as they give up all hope. Won’t matter to me who wins: I stopped caring about baseball when the Atlanta Braves’ Sid Bream ...
St. Paddy’s Day’s over, and spring is just around the corner! Time for our first Readers News Quiz of 2018.<em>Twitch.tv, which offers live streaming of people playing video games, seems to have proof that the game of chess need not be slow-moving and lacking in spectator ...
An old acquaintance of mine was kinda like Donald Trump. Whatever you bought, he could have found it for you cheaper. No matter how fast you completed a home renovation project, he had a pal who had a buddy who could have done it for you a lot faster. And better.I was reminded of this blowhard ...
