Sam Huff died last week. If that name means nothing to you, then you鈥檙e not of a certain age.The son of a West Virginia coal miner, Huff was a bruising, All-American line backer at West Virginia University in the 1950s. He played professionally with the New York (football) Giants and the ...
Building Big Bird Back BetterI don鈥檛 have anything against Big Bird.He蘑菇视频 fine as far as I鈥檓 concerned.But I鈥檓 73 years old. I鈥檝e never quite been in that big fellow蘑菇视频 target audience.So, when that 8-foot 2-inch, anthropomorphic bird found himself in the crosshairs of a U.S. senator, ...
Thomas Childers, a great writer that you鈥檝e probably never heard of, has composed a disturbing book, though how could it be otherwise?The book is about Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler.I highly recommend it. Give it as a Christmas present. It蘑菇视频 not cheering, of course; it蘑菇视频 dismal reading. ...
Beware of Obamacare!Those 鈥渄eath panels鈥� are brutal.Remember them?They were hatched out of thin air by Republicans, with hopes of thwarting President Obama蘑菇视频 proposed health-care reform bill in 2009.It was the boogeyman the folks on the right used as shorthand for the predicted danger ...
On Veterans Day, Connellsville is the place to turn for the inspiration and the heartbreak of war. During the Big One 鈥� World War II 鈥� Connellsville modeled both.Of course, there was plenty of grousing during the war years, 1941-45, especially about conscription 鈥� the draft. But we鈥檒l ...
I鈥檓 beside myself with ... Hey, wait!I can鈥檛 possibly be beside myself.That蘑菇视频 physiologically impossible.So is when you tell somebody to, 鈥渨atch your mouth.鈥漈hey鈥檙e a couple of terms Americans use in our thriving arsenal of idioms.Stuff that can鈥檛 be taken literally.Back in June, ...
