About ten years ago, at a more bad than good job, I met Brent. We were never close friends, but I traveled and worked with him enough to get to know him a bit. Brent was, and is, an imposing fellow. I’d guess he’s 6’3″ and perhaps 240 lbs., but not at all overweight—just a … Read more
…and a lot of us have been there, during youthful days of limited discretion. They were times of saying stupid things to women, running into walls, and public emesis, and hopefully they were long ago. And then there’s sleeping in a garbage can drunk. Jeffersonville (IL) City Council attorney Larry Wilder has resigned after a … Read more
No one else in my lifetime has ever been as famous as Michael Jackson was in 1983. His star power was nearly unfathomable, its magnitude impossible to overstate. Affection for him was universal. Everybody liked Michael Jackson, and people who called themselves Michael Jackson fans absolutely adored him. He was a true song and dance … Read more