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 […]

So we were sit­ting around our apart­ment in Waco, TX., circa 1993. Tay­lor was read­ing by the win­dow, I was work­ing on my Mac Clas­sic at the table, Joel was watch­ing tele­vi­sion, Alan was gone. A cat was meow­ing loudly out­side, very loudly, we could all hear it. That went on for a few minutes […]

In all mat­ters con­sti­tu­tional, the Supreme Court rules on the laws of the land. As of now, Chief Jus­tice John Roberts pre­sides over a court con­sist­ing of him­self, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Gins­burg, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito. It was under John Jay ((Jay was nominated […]