Editor’s Note: For anyone still alive, and driving, who experienced the OPEC Oil Shock of 1973, take this news on. If we were still dependent on Saudi oil, you can only imagine the impact on next week’s commute would be. Or the lines for gas, or the odd-even license plate day nonsense. Taking half of […]

There’s a semi-historical, famous scene from Ocean’s 13, in which Danny Ocean (George Clooney) excoriates Willy Bank (Al Pacino) when he accuses him on reneging on a gentleman’s deal by destroying a landmark hotel-casino owned by Reuben (Elliott Gould), stating “You shook Sinatra’s hand, you should have known better.” I normally don’t like George but […]

310. The distance from home plate to that green edifice and a number embedded into the DNA of all members of the Red Sox Nation. To get there you have to be able to hit a major league fastball hard and high enough to clear its 37 ft height. Along with the ivy walls of […]

Gentle Readers, this is a special missive from one of the Great Americans. – Vic Windy, The Table of Knowledge, and the End of an Era Well, my personal era, at least. The famous “they” say that the two happiest days of a boat owners’ life are the day that he buys the boat, and […]

If you were alive at the time, where were you when this happened? Lots of stuff going on at the time – the hangover from the race riots following the assassinations of MLK and RFK, Nixon’s election, stagflation, and the Viet Nam War’s nightly body counts made for a confusing and kaleidoscopic backdrop. Here was […]

The Great Wall looking fairly Biblical. One China “the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States does not challenge that position.” It’s been a couple of weeks and I had promised to provide […]

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this promotion ceremony. We are glad to see that you have chosen to take a few moments out of your busy lives to come and honor a great navy tradition and maybe have a few hors de’oevres and drinks at the same time. First, let me thank […]