Crawford, TX — “The Camp Casey Memorial on Prairie Chapel Road was removed by thievesearlier today. Not a single item is left at the memorial site.” I remember when my daughter’s…
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That great terror that just couldn’t seem to energize the Democrats enough, couldn’t cure John Kerry of his temporizing, or get the gays and lesbians to hold off a few…
I have only visited New Orleans on time, back in the mid 1960s. I was studying urban planning and I wanted to see this fabled city, with its Vieux…
Is it because my father always maintained that there were a few Greek corpuscles floating around in our Italian blood that I have long had a special affection for Greece?…
(Paraphrase) “You know, sometimes when people get freedom they do crazy things with it.”Donald Rumsfeld at press briefing after the looting and anarchy in the capture of Baghdad …
God and Allah seem to have shown their wrath on the same day. Was God smiting that notorious “Sodom” on the Bayou for its licentious “Storyville” or all that…
A friend of mine who was in the Navy told me that the flight suit that George Bush wore at his slightly premature ”mission accomplished” visit a few miles off…
Imagine for a moment two burly men engaged in arm-wrestling, pushing each other a few centimeters one way and the other, but locked in a grip in which neither can…
Call me Ishmael. I’ve long nursed a desire to go to sea. But, alas, most of the sailing I’ve done is through the pages of the voyages of…
Remember Bea Arthur? She was the wife in a successful sit-com of several years ago who was the 1970s representation of feminism on television. She was sort of…