We lost a great thinker, author, and American hero today. So many will say so much more, and so much better, than I ever could, so I’ll keep it short. He stood athwart history yelling “Stop!”, apparently until his last breath, given that he died in his study. I admire his nearly unbelievable list of … 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
Bobby Fischer, the only American ever to hold the official FIDE World Chess Championship, died of kidney failure at his home in Reykjavik yesterday. He was 64. My grandfather was both a patriot and a chess enthusiast, and it’s clear from his writings, scrapbooks, and library that he thought the 1972 World Chess Championship rather … Read more