This was supposed to be a post about the time I drove over 300 miles round-trip from Columbia to Savannah to buy a radioactive red Fiestaware teapot. Instead, belying today’s upbeat headline and photo, I’m going say hello to the Marines who deployed their youthful tallywhackers recently, urinating on what are reported to have been […]
To quote myself quoting an unlikable Maugham character last month, “a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it.” And while I don’t for a moment believe that anybody wants to die in combat, intuition tells me that many or […]
At about the same time last month that reports began to surface of a killer fungus wiping out tornado victims in Joplin, Missouri, CNN reporter Gary Tuchman was stopped by police on a public road while trying to find the “secret morgue” where it was said these victims’ bodies were being stored. Tuchman and his […]
