Don’t look now, but the Almighty Dollar is once more in all probability about to mess up college football, basketball, baseball, and every other NCAA sport you can think of. (Excuse me, for you English majors out there, I meant to say, “every other NCAA sport of which you can think.”) Apparently, NIL (Name, Image, [...]

Way back in the stone age, when middle school was known as junior high, it was not uncommon for two adolescent young lads to disagree on a very important matter, usually having to do with, of course, a female student who appealed to both of them. Loudly proclaimed insults in the hallways or lunchroom often [...]

This month is usually quite pleasant. Summer is just around the bend. The warmer May weather perks up spirits and heralds the coming of the lazy, hazy, crazy days of this time of year, probably because many of us still associate them with our long-ago youth. After the usual long, dark winter that often features [...]

What do Aaron Burr, Elbridge Gerry, John C. Calhoun, Richard M. Johnson, John C. Breckinridge, Hannibal Hamlin, Thomas Marshall, Henry Wallace, and Spiro Agnew all have in common? Every one of them was, at one point in our history, a heartbeat away from being President of the U.S. It’s probably very fortunate for the country, [...]

Normally at this juncture in a presidential election year, We the People would be inundated with all manner of political pundits providing poignant prognostications about which candidates were doing well in primary elections and which were in the process of packing it up to head home. Not so this year. In 2024, since Biden and [...]