Category: April

  • GREAT PARKING LOT IN THE SKY

    As most of you know, I do not follow Republican politics very closely.  But this year there has been a major exception to the rule.  The Herman Cain/Michele Bachmann/Rick Perry enjoyment has been endless as the Republicans vie for their party’s nomination to run against Barack Obama. The Republicans have been at it for several…

  • SUMMERS AND/OR SOMMERS

    I have consulted with grammar experts here and in New York City and the general conclusion is that the title to this essay is something like an adverb.  I was largely unschooled on the matter of grammar in the English language.  So if there is a mistake in the labeling of this title as an…

  • DON’T FORGET YOUR CHANGE

    In Missouri where I come from, we don’t like fanciful titles or road signs.  The main highway leading from St. Louis to Clayton, Missouri, my home town, is called Clayton Road.  It is so called because it goes to Clayton.  Similarly, in the suburbs of St. Louis there was a road called North and South. …

  • SO ENDETH THE LONG NIGHT

    As you know, baseball is played largely in the summertime.  The greediness of the owners has extended the baseball season until November arrives.  I deplore all of that. But to get to the point of this monumental essay, it has been the better part of four or five months since a Major League Baseball game…

  • TIM TEBOW’S TRAVAILS

    I hope and pray that you will recall an essay in the last mailing having to do with a professional quarterback who contends that he is a virgin.  I have nothing against professional football players, particularly quarterbacks, who contend that their virginity is intact.  But taking one thing with another and with the state of…