Category Archives: Life

Well… isn’t that’s what you’re supposed to do when you win the Super Bowl?  Sometimes you get to go to the White House, too.  And have a local parade. I’ll pass on the parade… and going to the White House … Continue reading →

Look at our calendar.  It’s filled with “holidays” that are flawed in one way or another… and I think it is sapping our National strength. First… let’s define a holiday.  A “proper” holiday is a day when banks are closed, … Continue reading →

Although it was the Etruscans who first introduced gladiatorial games to the civilized world, it would be the Romans who would give greatest expression to this form of entertainment. The first record of gladiator combat took place in 264 BCE.  … Continue reading →

76 years ago on this very day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt mixed the first legal martini in White House in 13 years… when Utah (can you believe Utah!) became the 36th State to repeal the 18th Amendment. FDR preferred a Gibson … Continue reading →