We learned long ago that PETA (People For the Ethicial Treatment of Animals) will do just about anything for publicity, even using a semi-nude model to draw attention to one of its campaigns. In Des Moines, Iowa, Katy Robertson, an actress from South Africa, posed topless in front of a sign decrying cruelty to...
An English professor who lives somewhere up north (New Hampshire I think) keeps sending emails complaining about my grammar. “Your improper use of the English language is a disservice to your readers,” he says. “Bad grammar is the mark of an uneducated mind.” You got that right professor. I ain’t all that well educated....
The death of ABC News anchor Peter Jennings shines the spotlight, where it belongs, on smoking, lung cancer and the other life-robbing diseases use of tobacco can cause. Like many of my generation, I smoked as a young man. Kicked the habit nearly 40 years ago. Watched my grandfather, a lifelong smoker, die of...