When I had lunch with Saintseester this week, she was actually hoping the worst of the winter was over already. (It’s still January. I laughed at her.) Jay Leno is headlining this year’s Huntsville Hospital Foundation fundraiser. This is a good land for this organization, and he always was a talented comic. But I still … Read more
Remember when our esteemed president released five senior Taliban leaders in exchange for one soldier (who almost certainly deserted) and the promise that the released Taliban would behave themselves? Remember that he did so unilaterally, ignoring a law requiring him to give Congress 30 days’ notice before releasing anyone from Guantanamo? Remember the released POW’s … Read more
In the spring of 1989, at UAH in my Introduction to Philosophy class, there was a girl named Carol whose eyes were the greenest, most lustrous things I’ve ever seen. They were pools of molten emerald. She sat several rows over and slightly further forward, so we’d have opportunities for eye contact as Dr. Cling … Read more