Back when I worked in television in the early 1980s, I reviewed hundreds of movies each year.I had one fellow walk up to me and say, 鈥淚 disagree with your review of ...鈥� whatever the movie was.I asked him if he liked that movie. He told me he hadn鈥檛 even seen it. He just wanted to let me ...
I鈥檓 home. The furnace is running. OMG. After a week in balmy Florida, where I dipped into the hotel swimming pool, watched ballgames, and paraded around in shorts and T-shirts, the cold is hardly bearable.Flying from the Gulf Coast to the hill-top airport on the outskirts of Bridgeport, ...
I suppose 鈥渨oke鈥� is now a dirty word.For the better part of a century, the word, 鈥渨oke,鈥� hadn鈥檛 harmed anybody.It had long been a bit of African American vernacular which meant alert, or aware of racial and social injustices.That鈥檚 all.Somehow, folks on the political right, have ...
Some years ago I was sitting at a research table at the state archives in Harrisburg. I had filled out a research slip for something or other when I was handed (by mistake) a letter-size envelope containing a piece of canvas 鈥� a sample for those in state government in 1861 who bought tents ...
Scott Adams made his fortune with his wit and artisanship.He鈥檚 losing that fortune with his mouth.He鈥檇 built that fortune on the shoulders of his highly popular comic strip 鈥� Dilbert.Adams has slowly been chipping away at the goodwill Dilbert helped him build with the public (2,000 ...
In September 1935, an explosion of nine tons of dynamite devastated no fewer than a thousand homes in West Lebanon, a small community north of here in Indiana County.The accidental detonation at a stone quarry on the outskirts of town rendered the homes unfit for occupancy. Authorities ordered ...
