But I’m not going to mention baseball. I’m going to point you to this profile of Al Jaffee, the sole creator and artist who’s been creating Mad magazine’s fold-ins for the past 44 years. The fold-in is a feature of the back cover which poses a riddle solved by folding the page into thirds, right …
There was a story on Weekend Edition Sunday this morning about Robert Scott, the Antarctic explorer who died on his way back from the South Pole after being beaten there by Amundson in 1912. It reminded me of something. When Dad got back from Antarctica he told us he’d had a place named after him. …
The Red Sox defeated the Dodgers in an exhibition game last night. The venue was a little unusual.
I was driving down the hill on my usual errand run today and saw a line of people on the sidewalk extending about half-a-mile from the corner of my street down the main drag, past a Borders, a Starbucks, and almost to a Sizzler. I had no idea what this was all about, so when …
Wow. Take that, Big Ten! Davidson, that little bitty 1,700-student school from Charlotte, moves on to play the winner of the Villanova-Kansas game on Sunday. Neat story about them? The school made tickets and bus transportation available to its students if they wanted to go to Detroit for this weekend’s game(s).
My outrage meter is pegged today, so let’s do something different. Here are songs with the word “Long” in their titles from my iTunes Library: The Long And Winding Road — The Beatles Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) — The Hollies Long Dark Road — The Hollies Long Distance Winter — Buckingham Nicks …
Senator McCain on financial regulation, Tuesday: Our financial market approach should include encouraging increased capital in financial institutions by removing regulatory, accounting and tax impediments to raising capital. Um, Senator Straight Talker, sir? It’s the lack of regulation of investment banks that got us into this mess. And you want even less? You’re right. Economics …
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Lost is a rerun tonight. This has been a Public Service Announcement.
Okay, Charlie Steiner is given to overstatement. Nonetheless, the Dodgers and Red Sox are staging an exhibition game at the LA Coliseum this Saturday. 115,000 tickets have been sold. I saw my first big league game at the Coliseum, in 1960 or 1961, sitting behind third base. The Dodgers played there from 1958-1961 while their …
What’s behind this sudden internal battle in Basra? Here’s an interesting analysis from UPI. I have no idea how credible it is, but parts of it make some sense to me. The violence that has killed dozens and injured hundreds since Tuesday is billed as Iraq’s military against “criminals, terrorist forces and outlaws,” in the …