The Land O Lakes people have offered to sponsor me in the annual Wisconsin Butter Sculpture Festival. My entry would be an interpretation of Rodin’s The Thinker; except that my Butter Thinker would be sitting to Plato’s left...
Category - Commentary
It all began, not too long ago, when a teenager put his baseball cap on BACKWARDS. This young member of the acne generation was clueless, [are we surprised?] about the chaos he set in motion, by rebelling against proper baseball...
How much is too much? In a similar vein, how high is up? Here in Kingwood, there is a storage locker facility whose company logo reads: Enough’s Enough. The storage locker industry was conceived by the perception that consumers...
How big is big? In sporting arenas, the big TV’s are called Jumbotrons; massive fireworks displays are referred to as Colossal, and the optimistic fiancé terms her engagement ring as Extra Small. We owe these superlative size...
When major league baseball began in 1875, no one in their wildest dreams would ever imagine a dispute at home plate, involving a manager, a player, and the umpire, being referred to as a RHUBARB, but that’s what they called it...
The F bomb has gone too far! It’s out of place, it’s in your face, so it must be replaced. There had to be a softer and more gentle word, that could be used as an attention getter, without being totally offensive. After...
Caution! You are about to enter THE no-spin zone. The factor begins right now. This is Bill O’Reilly inviting you to a special broadcast from Fox news here on the 27th floor of the Fox news building in New York City. Here is...
That’s what my mom said when I asked her about my name. She wanted a name that would command attention; a name that would turn heads when it was spoken. Her best intentions have sentenced me to a lifetime spelling bee. My name...
That’s the price the Dutch paid for Manhattan back in 1626. A hell of a bargain by today’s standards! Our party of four rode the commuter from Trenton, New Jersey, arriving at Penn Station about 8:30 AM, making very little...
I heard a radio commercial the other day that proclaimed “Ford F1 50 truck with all the bells and whistles was offered at $15,000 off the MSRP!” Wow! That’s a hellava discount! Could it be real? At that price, the trucks...