I cannot say that I knew Richard Don Moorman during our three years at Bryan Adams High School; with a student body of 3,300, it was too big to be friends with everyone. He is among the class of 1971’s “fallen Cougars,” having died in 2003...
My Illinois-based friend Dex is highly discerning. His opinions about history, religion, culture, sports and politics are invariably well-considered and can be relied upon. In the penultimate category, he is baseball first, hockey second...
The twin (although not identical) sister of my long-ago University of Texas girlfriend, Pam, was named Becky. They were born on July 4, 1952—a few months before me. That means they were sophomores and I was a freshman when we met at Jester...
Most Muslims would regard me as a Kafir, a conscious non-adherent of Islam. This derogatory term is often translated as “pagan,” “rejector,” “denier,” “disbeliever” or—most infuriating—“infidel.” I am no infidel, as I hold warmly to the Christian...
American spree-killers over the last few decades are so ubiquitous that it’s easy to lose track of who did what, where and when, the number of dead and the supposed reasons for the blood-letting. So, Elliot, why should I look any closer at you...
I can understand why the Hope Diamond is such a popular exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. The magnificent 45.52-carat blue diamond—allegedly the subject of a Hindu curse that influenced the French...
It’s been a very long time—closing in on 60 years—so my memories of being a student at Hill Junior High School have faded. Some scenes remain distinct, but many others are less so; in certain cases, I have just a general impression of what it was...
In May 1959, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and junior partner George Harrison started calling themselves the Beatles. They appeared at Lennon’s art college, churches and wherever else they could plug in their equipment and play covers of the songs...
The present trip was canceled three times—Christmas 2021 (frigid weather), once in March and once in April (my gathering medical problems)—but I could no longer be deterred. On Saturday morning, I boarded a 32-seater at Express Bus Terminal and...
Starting in my college days, I read The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The New Journalism, The Painted Word and The Bonfire of the Vanities, and...
If you were to somehow combine Clyde Lovellette, Danny Manning, Paul Pierce, Raef LaFrentz, Nick Collison and Mario Chalmers into one super-great University of Kansas basketball player, he would still fall short of Wilton Norman Chamberlain, Esq...
Guys envied him, girls desired him, paparazzi chased him, and his death in the summer of 1999 unleashed a wave of teary encomia. As I just finished reading a bio of John F. Kennedy, Jr., I have him on my mind and wish to make a tentative...
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