It鈥檚 not hard to imagine the gently sloping lawn crowded with concert-goers - though it was a concert of a most peculiar kind: a telephonic one.For on a summer鈥檚 evening at the dawn of the 20th century the mistress of the House of Thompson invited what she undoubtedly considered the ...
Greenland is the world鈥檚 largest island.The semi-autonomous territory of Denmark has a population of 56,370.It also has the highest suicide rate in the world.That could鈥檝e become much higher if Donald Trump had gotten his hands on it.Fortunately, (for them - and us) that鈥檚 not going to ...
It was the bloodiest day in the history of Fayette County, and I wish I had been there to take it all in. I鈥檝e read about it, I鈥檝e pondered its meaning; to have seen it unfold would have been special, though frightening and scary, too.The county was the focal point of a regionwide ...
Steven Arnold King has a knack for saying the wrong things.The eight-term Republican congressman from Western Iowa is in hot water again.Steve King creepily thinks that rape and incest are somehow keys to life on planet Earth.That statement requires further exploration.I鈥檒l do my best to ...
The other day this newspaper printed next year鈥檚 Pirate schedule. I liked that. I looked up opening day and saw that the season ends several days before October begins. The Bucs play Boston at home in 2020, July 3, 4, and 5. They play the Dodgers twice, both times in April. How odd.I like ...
Last Wednesday, President Trump took his second trip to El Paso, Texas, this year.His second visit wasn鈥檛 as well-received as his first.In February, he held one of those traveling show/rallies in El Paso, when he spent much of his time denigrating Mexican immigrants.He fearmongered about ...