It was Parent’s Week­end at Bay­lor, prob­a­bly around 1993. The big hul­la­baloo was going on over at Founders Mall — par­ents meet­ing teach­ers, kids intro­duc­ing their moms and dads to Pro­fes­sor So-And-So, and there I was just ambling through with­out my par­ents, who hadn’t come this time around. If you’d seen me then on that […]

Ha! Just kid­ding! Mar­garet Spellings is the cur­rent Sec­re­tary of Edu­ca­tion and isn’t pres­i­dent. Come on, silly, what were you think­ing? So…how does the Sec­re­tary of Edu­ca­tion skip all of that run­ning for Pres­i­dent and the elec­tion and just become Pres­i­dent of the United States? Why, have every­one in front of you in the line […]

The Moon­Pie, the del­i­cacy of choice for work­ing men across Amer­ica dur­ing the first half of the 20th Cen­tury, was cre­ated in 1917 by Earl Mitchell while work­ing his ter­ri­tory of Ken­tucky, Ten­nessee and West Vir­ginia for The Chat­tanooga Bak­ery of Chat­tanooga, Ten­nessee. As the story goes, Mr. Mitchell was vis­it­ing a com­pany store that […]

Galusha Pen­ny­packer [1. I got most of the info for this piece from All Biogra­phies and the remain­ing info from Wikipedia.] came from a long line of mil­i­tary men. His father had fought in the Mexican-American War and his grand­fa­ther in the Rev­o­lu­tion. At the out­break of the Civil War, Galusha was sched­uled to attend […]

Laura Lin­ney is, accord­ing to many peo­ple who know more than I do, sup­pos­edly a good actress, [1. She’s been nom­i­nated for two Acad­emy Awards for Best Actress and Best Sup­port­ing Actress as well as won many other act­ing awards.] but it’s hard for me to see what all the fuss is about. When I […]