Every U.S. newspaper ought to be required to run a correction any time a story appears referring to baseball as the national pastime. Baseball has not been the national pastime...
As you will recall, one of the most frequently voiced questions after the attacks on the United States last September was this one: Will Americans keep their resolve for the...
`Keep an eye on summer. . . ." That bit of lyric, from the middle of an old song I have otherwise long forgotten, reinsinuates itself into the atmosphere this...
Bob Greene's new book, "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen" (William Morrow), tells the story of a modest railroad depot in a Nebraska town of...
There were no raised voices. Despite our disagreement on the issue at hand, we remained civil. If I had to characterize our conversation, I would use a phrase utilized to...
`Dee-fense! Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" The chant is being heard in basketball arenas every night of the NBA playoffs. It's a staple at American sports events -- the crowd urging the home...
The world's great ideas arrive in unconventional ways. The world's great thinkers are people who look upon the same panoramas as the rest of us, yet are able to see...
Oh, great. In central Florida over the weekend, residents of a large apartment complex found notes taped to their doors. The notes said, in part: "Discussions were held about the...
You could have set your watch by this one, it was so predictable. Not the details -- not the specific revelation that President Bush was told in advance that Osama...
Bob Sigsworth believes very much in technology. For the last 25 years, he has made his living by believing in it. Sigsworth, 44, lives in Elyria, Ohio, and works as...