Indulge me a moment as I engage in some idle sports idolatry: In 1957, Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox slugger, batted an American League-best .388.Can you guess his batting average for the second half of the 鈥�57 season 鈥� from the first game after the all-star break to the last pitch in ...
On a recent flight from Texas to North Carolina, a woman came so unglued that she tried to open the plane蘑菇视频 door. The flight crew had to bind and gag her with duct tape. This was an extreme example of a disturbing trend in air travel: People are becoming unruly or even hysterical.I think this ...
There are many amusing and interesting names of places across the land. How about Rough and Ready, Calif.? Or Two Egg, Fla.; Slickpoo, Idaho; Santa Claus, Ind.; Burnt Porcupine, Maine; Hot Coffee, Miss.; Mud Butte, S.D., or Lick Fork, W.Va.? A whole book could be written on unusual names of ...
The attack on the foreign flags at the George C. Marshall Memorial Plaza at Uniontown蘑菇视频 Five Corners 鈥� the suspect in the case told police the national emblems had no business flying in the good old U.S. of A. 鈥� brings to mind this fact: General-of-the Army Marshall was a nationalist in ...
Who or what are the people we look to for moral authority or credibility? Clergy, counselors, (grand)parents, perhaps the court system? But what happens when they do things that are regrettable, and let expectations down? It is acknowledged that people may not remember the thousand things you ...
鈥淗appy Fourth of July,鈥� we tell one another. We may not always mean it.This year蘑菇视频 celebration of national independence is not shaping up as an especially joyous one. Things are so unsettled.Let me count some of the ways.First. We Americans seem to be at one another蘑菇视频 throats, still, ...
