In an essay nine years ago, Eric Liu, a former White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, said that civics 鈥� as in high school history and social studies 鈥� was 鈥渦nsexy.鈥滱 real turn-off, man.Kids aren鈥檛 learning a thing, Liu maintained. Or, they鈥檙e not learning what鈥檚 both ...
I have no other explanation, but I was wrong.Dead wrong.It was the kind of unforced blunder that requires only forthright contrition.Here it is.Last week in this space, I referred to an NFL team called the Baltimore Colts.There is no such team.There hasn鈥檛 been a team in Baltimore named the ...
On Sept. 23, 1956, 44,932 鈥渂ug-eyed鈥� fans (as Bob Prince would say) squeezed into Forbes Field, which had seating for only 34,249 of them.How the Pirates managed to accompany a crowd that was better than 10,000 overcapacity can hardly be imagined. Where did those without seats stand? How ...
It seems like it was only yesterday that Donald Trump declared war on many pro football players.In September of 2017, he appeared at one of his (pep) rallies in Alabama, and he asked, 鈥淲ouldn鈥檛 you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 鈥楪et that ...
It seems more and more people are acting and talking crazy. It鈥檚 pretty dangerous stuff.Example: Before a vote last week by the Uniontown Area School Board to require student mask-wearing, to help stop the spread of a variant of the COVID-19 virus, a parent told the board, 鈥淭his whole ...
Robocaller: 鈥淗ello. I鈥檓 calling from Card Services.鈥滿e: 鈥淐lick!鈥滱dmittedly, I can鈥檛 see them, but show of hands: Who just loves getting those kinds of calls?What about those inquiries about your car鈥檚 warranty?I鈥檓 certain nobody鈥檚 hand just went up. (If yours did, you can put ...
