Donald Trump is quite a golfer.He鈥檚 always heading to a golf course near him.In fact, according to the web site trumpgolfcount.com, since he was inaugurated, he鈥檚 visited a golf course every 4.5 days.That鈥檚 a lot.Especially since he bragged about how little a President Trump would head ...
Yesterday marked an anniversary of sorts. Sept. 7, 1958, was a Sunday, and nothing unusual happened. Except that we drove to Pittsburgh to see a ballgame.The Pirates vs. the Braves at Forbes Field. A doubleheader, rare today but a regular feature of the baseball season in those days.By ...
There is one question for which I have no answer.Do we still live in the same world in which Donald Trump thinks he鈥檚 living?In recent weeks, he鈥檚 developed more than just his usual erratic behavior.He now seems close to having a complete meltdown.The pressures of the possibilities of an ...
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 ...