April 9, 2008 My Man, Billy Buck My favorite Cubs player, good old number 22, finally gets some redemption in Boston. Can Leon Durham be far behind?
April 9, 2008 You Gotta Have Faith Faith Faith “I finally figured out what had happened. Some reader had sent the column to a mailing list of Catholic crazies and they dumped their…
April 9, 2008 Update from Western China On a more serious note, I received an email from a friend currently in China who gives a report on the Tibetan’s struggle for…
April 8, 2008 From My Cold Dead Hands! When I heard that Charlton Heston died, well, what could I say? My old foe, my old enemy, had passed on to the great…
April 7, 2008 Let Us Play Two That’s Ernie Banks, in statue form. Went to the game Sunday, which means I’m two for six on this six-game opening homestand. Not bad….
April 7, 2008 No, Ronnie, No! That’s Ronnie Woo-Woo on the drums, and let me tell you, it made a horrible racket. Not so good on the skins. Surely this…
April 4, 2008 MLK I had never heard this speech before by Robert Kennedy on the day of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Read it and/or listen to it…
April 4, 2008 Neocon Delusions My sometime penpal, Michael Ledeen, is the subject of an interesting post over at AmericaBlog, titled “Neocon Delusions.” Interesting to me because I’ve been…