I coulda’ been a contender
Rare is the new year that begins without me wondering how I took a wrong turn on the road of life and became a...
“A consistently dour columnist…”
Come on, you don't want to end this year reading what an aging aggie like me thinks the "Best Stories of 2009" are. Easy...
I can tell you crow tastes like chicken
One of the worst meals of my life occurred on a stormy June evening in the early 1980s at Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel. The main...
Take it to the non-bank bank
It was more a wavering non-waiver than another government oldie-but-goodie, a non-denial denial. Still, nothing in the Environmental Protection Agency's Dec. 1 delay to...
While I can’t do math, I can read
If you asked unimpeachable sources such as St. Peter or former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee why so many pretty average people often choose...
Remember me? Of course I do, Orlie
Longtime readers may recall a Thanksgiving column years ago that featured a dinner entree provided by Orlie, the gainfully unemployed younger brother of our...
One devil’s advocate thoughts
If idle hands are the devil's workshop, idle thoughts are, what, the product of a devil's advocate? Maybe, but one election result from early...
Only the land lasts forever
The final Saturday in October swept me three hours south for lunch with my parents and nearly-new grandniece and, later that Halloween afternoon, backwards...
Antitrust chief, others moving ahead
Almost before her first cup of government coffee cooled, Christine Varney, the antitrust chief at the U.S. Department of Justice since April 20, tossed...
More Astroturf on global warming war
If the generals and admirals within the concentric walls of the Pentagon -- hardly a bastion of greenie weenies -- view global warming as...
