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To secure a seat, he’d had to get there before noon for a game that didn’t start until seven hours later. Since he was by himself, he was afraid to even leave his stool for fear it would be claimed by someone else when he returned. That’s a long time to abstain from the bathroom. Continue reading →

I know there are liberals who are using the shootings to try to gain political advantage over the conservative right, and that, too, is reprehensible. But, to be candid, the conservative right is more prone to violent rhetoric. Continue reading →

In the thirties, forties and fifties, people were advised to smoke Camels “for digestion sake” and Old Gold pledged “not a cough in the carload.” Camel was not only denying it was unhealthy but was telling people in the 1940’s that smoking was good for you “More doctors smoke Camel than any other cigarette. This is no casual claim. It’s an actual fact.” Continue reading →

Plenty of people were celebrating the day after the election, but it wasn’t because of who won or lost. It meant the first full day of not having to read, watch or listen to those horrible campaign ads which grew … Continue reading →

I couldn’t make it as a television news reporter, though I’m sure there is plenty of demand for fat bald guys in front of the camera. Let’s face it. There are few, if any. There was Al Roker for a … Continue reading →

(Skill Note: This column from my newspaper, the Rocket-Courier in Wyalusing, was actually written the week before the one that follows— revisiting my recent high school class reunion.) Continue reading →

The most memorable classmate attending my recent high school class reunion was a guy nobody remembered. He wasn’t even there, but everyone was talking about him by the time the evening was over. You know how there is somebody from … Continue reading →

The rock ‘n’ roll era, now known simply as the rock era, started around the time I was born and peaked, in terms of the best songs ever performed, the year I graduated from high school in 1965. Don’t take … Continue reading →

I can still see my dad sitting on the porch on a bright summer weekend as I pull in the driveway with my  young family.”Tires look a little smooth!” he shouts disapprovingly. “Shouldn’t be driving around on bald tires.””I noticed … Continue reading →