I just fin­ished read­ing Geof­frey Perret’s excel­lent book “Lincoln’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Great­est Pres­i­dent as Com­man­der in Chief”. It’s a great read, espe­cially for some­one like me who was never very inter­ested in any­thing to do with the Civil War. In it Abra­ham Lin­coln becomes less mythic, as he has become today, […]

Base­ball, in this day and age, can seem to take an eter­nity to watch. Espe­cially if you’re going into the 8th with a 0–0 tie on your hands. But the longest base­ball game in major league play was played between the Chicago White Sox and Mil­wau­kee Brew­ers at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The game started […]

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 […]