I鈥檓 beside myself with ... Hey, wait!I can鈥檛 possibly be beside myself.That鈥檚 physiologically impossible.So is when you tell somebody to, 鈥渨atch your mouth.鈥漈hey鈥檙e a couple of terms Americans use in our thriving arsenal of idioms.Stuff that can鈥檛 be taken literally.Back in June, ...
The automobile accident that has sidelined state representative Matthew Dowling of Uniontown sounds awful: traveling alone, police say, Dowling鈥檚 vehicle plowed through a field before striking a tree 100 yards off a road in Upper Leacock Township in Lancaster County.It was 7 in the evening. ...
The death of Colin Powell meant the loss of another American hero.He was beloved and respected on all sides of America鈥檚 ever-widening political divide.Minutes after his death was announced, tributes filled the 24-hour news stations.Some of those tributes were tearful. All were sincere.I was ...
If you were in the stateside service in the early to mid-70s 鈥� as I was 鈥� you may have noticed a certain lack of discipline and esprit de corps among the troops.Even a lowly recruit serving in the Army Reserves sensed something was wrong. Toward the tail end of basic training at Fort ...
Jon Gruden claims he doesn鈥檛 have a racist bone in his body.It鈥檚 not his bones that got him into trouble.It was his brain and his typing fingers that landed the onetime Super Bowl-winning coach in hot water.As a result, he鈥檚 now taking his coaching talents to the unemployment line.After ...
As Halloween approaches, here鈥檚 something scary to contemplate, and unlike black cats crossing your path and cracks in the sidewalk, this is real: Donald Trump as candidate for president of the United States.As spooky is what a third Trump candidacy would do to the GOP, whose Republican, ...
