<em>Revisiting a column from Easter past:</em>If we paid clergy as much as we pay baseball players, would we expect them to pray hurt?This thought occurred to me when I realized some years ago that the start of baseball season and Easter often come within days of ...
The last drivers on Earth were hunkered down in an abandoned missile silo outside Reno when Max put pen to paper one last time.Dearest Chloe,This will be my final letter. I hope it reaches you. They’ve been gathering outside all day. Once their leaders arrive, they’ll break through the ...
I was 22 in 1971, and television wasn’t much older. If that means nothing to a younger reader, here’s how old I am: I remember when Pittsburgh had only one TV station – WDTV, Channel 3, on the old Dumont Network. When I once told a niece (who’s now 40) that my family had only a ...
Memory plays tricks with us all. No one knows this better than NBC News anchordude Brian Williams, whose not-so-total recall of certain facts – namely that the helicopter in which he was riding while covering the Iraq War in 2003 had been shot down – resulted in his being suspended from his ...
As brilliant marketing campaigns go, you have to hand it to Hasbro. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of its popular board game Monopoly, the toymaker shipped 30,000 specially branded units to France. Business as usual so far, correct? But here’s where the brilliance comes in: Eighty of the ...
I welcome each new year for its endless possibility. Not the possibility of things becoming better, but the possibility of people finding previously unknown ways to look stupid.Now, I’m not saying I never look stupid – it took me roughly 40 years to realize the Palmolive soap brand drew its ...
