First off, I freely admit that I used to tie up the Dale Evans rubber figure from my Roy Rogers Chuck Wagon play set when I was a kid.In my imagination, Dale had been kidnapped by bad guys in an effort to force her husband, Roy, to relinquish control of the café they owned. Invariably, Roy and ...
You know the world is in a sad state when anarchists try to organize.That’s effectively what’s happening now, with the leader of al-Qaida making kissy faces at the Islamic State in Syria (ISIS) after the competing jihadist groups have spent the past two years putting the pot and kettle to ...
In honor of the end of summer, a column compiling signs of impending Apocalypse:• An unnamed school district has forbidden one of its students from bringing her Wonder Woman lunchbox to school. Why? It violates the school’s dress code. A letter from the school – posted anonymously by the ...
I was for gender equality long before women made it a cause cèlébre in the ’60s. Growing up in a household in which the father didn’t carry a house key because the mother couldn’t drive – and thus was bound to be home at whatever hour he chose to sashay through the portal – probably ...
When I was in my early 20s, I shared an apartment with the guitarist from my band. We had separate bedrooms, and I had to walk past his to get to mine. About three months into our “Odd Couple” arrangement, I began to detect an odor wafting from within. Even though 40-plus years have passed, ...
It’s summer. Unable to sustain a thought for more than 90 uninterrupted seconds, I’ve compiled a list of opinions that no one really cares about. Sort of like a whining U.S. Supreme Court justice.• A friend points out an incongruity seen while driving east of Pittsburgh: above a ...
