Suppose an official type approached a friend or neighbor of yours and asked these questions about you: Is he a member of the Ku Klux Klan? Does he grow marijuana? Does he beat his wife? Have you seen the police at his house? These are questions that Major League Baseball is asking its umpires’ friends … Read more
Up-to-the-minute headline: What I had to say six months ago in this post: Senator McCain, we thank you for your service, but you are not going to be President of the United States. Everyone knows it but you. Please commence fading from public view at once. Who knows? If you give it a year or … Read more
The happiest nation in the world is Denmark. Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli and Howard Cunningham are the only two characters to appear in every single episode of Happy Days. The “Spruce Goose” is made of birch. The longest non-coined and nontechnical word in the English language remains that grade-school chestnut, antidisestablishmentarianism. The longest technical term … Read more