Can there be coincidence that this President’s Day, honoring Lincoln and Washington, can simultaneously be the commemoration of the independence of Kosovo and the anniversary of the election of Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederacy? Perhaps it is just that history is bunk, as Henry Ford maintained, and there are only so many days […]

I get a lot of mail, and this curious thing was in the in-box this morning. It is from another owner of a Hubrismobile, a real one, complete with the AMG speed-and-performance package that I could never afford. She goes by the screen-name “HotOne,” which is predictable enough. She has been encouraging me to attend […]

I get a lot of mail, and this curious thing was in the in-box this morning. It is from another owner of a Hubrismobile, a real one, complete with the AMG speed-and-performance package that I could never afford. She goes by the screen-name “HotOne,” which is predictable enough. She has been encouraging me to attend […]

Mardy 1 sent the note around to the usual suspects yesterday, and it caught me up short. Jack is dead. Gone. Checked out Big Pink for good. I knew he was ill, had been ill, I corrected myself. Carol B told me about it when I called on her briefly in the office on the […]

Mardy 1 sent the note around to the usual suspects yesterday, and it caught me up short. Jack is dead. Gone. Checked out Big Pink for good. I knew he was ill, had been ill, I corrected myself. Carol B told me about it when I called on her briefly in the office on the […]

Every year on this day, the Romans celebrated the founding of their great city by killing two goats and a dog, smearing the blood on the foreheads of two noble youths. The rite referred to Romulus and Remus, the Original Romans, half divine and half mortal, by Mars, out of Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia, to […]

Every year on this day, the Romans celebrated the founding of their great city by killing two goats and a dog, smearing the blood on the foreheads of two noble youths. The rite referred to Romulus and Remus, the Original Romans, half divine and half mortal, by Mars, out of Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia, to […]

By the time the re-run of The Simpsons was over, the whole thing was wrapped up. I enjoyed the episode; it was the one where Crusty the Clown is framed for robbing the Quicky Mart by Sideshow Bob, whose voice is provided by the actor Kelsey Grammer. Kelsey has quite a back-story in his personal […]

Dr. Jack Wheeler, letter jacket and former man-eating tiger, Vietnam I slept in, since there was no point in getting all wrapped up in something only to have to drop it to go vote. Based on the 2000 election, I assumed the lines would be long, and I was out the door and padding down […]

Sukoy-30MK in flight The Obama campaign continued to hit the Clinton machine in the midriff yesterday, another victory, this one in Maine. Expectations were managed, and the loss was expected. Still, Senator Clinton sent her campaign manager packing in the biggest shake-up since the parade mounted up last year. Things are getting serious, and an […]