From time to time, I just stop; then take note of our wonderfully confounding English language.Today is one of those times.I鈥檝e often questioned why we use phrases like "jump in the shower" when nobody jumps into showers.Likewise, I鈥檝e never known anybody who truly "hops out of bed."I鈥檝e ...
The jig is up. I don鈥檛 know everything. To prove it, three stories from last week left me scratching my head. (At least three. There may have been more. In the age of social media and everyone蘑菇视频-a-reporter, it蘑菇视频 impossible to read everything.)The first involved of all people Josh Hawley, ...
If I seem like a broken record 鈥� then so be it.Somebody has got to figure out a way to get these military-style rifles off the streets of America.It蘑菇视频 only been a little over a month (right after the mass murders in Uvalde, Texas) since I wrote about the glut of these weapons that have ...
July marks another anniversary for the coal strikes that roiled Western Pennsylvania and, most especially, Fayette County in the early months of Franklin Roosevelt蘑菇视频 fabled New Deal.The 1933 strikes by miners working for outfits like the rabidly anti-union H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Company ...
To become a naturalized American, an applicant must meet certain criteria. He or she must be at least 18 and to have lived in the country a minimum of five years as a permanent resident (three if married to an American).There蘑菇视频 an application to be filled out and a fee to be paid. There蘑菇视频 ...
I used to like fads.Not anymore.Fads can be fun for young folks.But not necessarily for we septuagenarians.For us, nothing really lasts that long 鈥� by comparison.Allow me to take you to my youth.<strong>Hula-Hoops</strong>I had one. A nice big, red one.I was one of ...
