<em>鈥淥h! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth. And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ... wheeled and soared and swung ... Put out my hand and touched the face of God.鈥� 鈥撀�</em><em>High Flight, by poet John Gillespie ...
<em>鈥淥h! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth. And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings ... wheeled and soared and swung ... Put out my hand and touched the face of God.鈥� 鈥撀�</em><em>High Flight, by poet John Gillespie ...
Indulge me a moment as I engage in some idle sports idolatry: In 1957, Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox slugger, batted an American League-best .388.Can you guess his batting average for the second half of the 鈥�57 season 鈥� from the first game after the all-star break to the last pitch in ...
I was just minding my own business last Saturday morning.At least I thought I was.I happened to be watching one of those public affairs/newsmaker programs on a certain cable news network when they broke for commercials (12 of them lasting five solid minutes).Yet, it wasn鈥檛 the number of ...
When I was 11 years old, nightfall was my enemy. Especially during the summer.As I remember (admittedly, I鈥檓 embellishing this) I never sat down once during any of the summers of my youth. Rest was a waste of time when there were apple trees to climb, sandlot ball games to be played 鈥� or ...
The attack on the foreign flags at the George C. Marshall Memorial Plaza at Uniontown鈥檚 Five Corners 鈥� the suspect in the case told police the national emblems had no business flying in the good old U.S. of A. 鈥� brings to mind this fact: General-of-the Army Marshall was a nationalist in ...
He鈥檚 the Energizer Bunny of one term, twice-impeached presidents.He just keeps lying and lying and lying.Civilian Donald John Trump had hidden behind Fox News long enough.It was time for him to find a field in Wellington, Ohio, and hold forth with his usual outrageousness 鈥� aimed with ...