On a summer evening in Milwaukee, with his team mired near the bottom of the National League, Pirates' manager Bobby Bragan emerged from the dugout mid-game. Bragan headed toward the umpires. Strangely enough, he was sipping from a small drinking carton. Moments earlier, the brash Bucco ...
Donald Trump acts like there's no tomorrow. How else to explain the fact that he's willfully squandered the goodwill of at least some of the people who elected and then sustained him early in his second presidency? A recent poll - a Pew poll released last week - places Trump's job approval at ...
This Saturday falls on April 19, the day that colonial Americans confronted British regulars at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge in 1775, firing the "shots heard 'round the world" and starting the war for independence that marked the emergence of a new world order - that order being ...
Every summer for more than I can recall, I've read, or reread, two books, both by F. Scott Fitzgerald. One is the novel he was working on at the time of his death in 1940, at the age of 44 - 鈥淭he Last Tycoon,鈥� or more properly, 鈥淭he Love of the Last Tycoon, A Western.鈥� The other is ...
There's a famous photograph of Calvin Coolidge on the White House lawn wearing an Indian chief's headdress. Coolidge was a popular fella; he got away with it. Elon Musk, appearing last week in Wisconsin on the eve of that state's Supreme Court election, donned a cheese hat. He must have ...
In his own Gettysburg address - this in 1939 - President Franklin Roosevelt said, "It seldom helps to wonder how a statesman of one generation would surmount the crisis of another. A statesman deals with concrete difficulties - with things which must be done day to day." Of course, FDR likely ...
