PoorRichardsExcuseMother Nature’s polar express blew into St. Louis bringing with it the return of Old Man Winter’s Prodigal Son. A nine-inch drop of snow and sleet elicited cries of anguish from naysayers as they shivered and shoveled the winter mix from their driveways and scraped clear their car windshields. Conversely, the young and the young […]
“Geography is destiny.” Abraham Verghese. The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers determined our state’s course and marked much of its border. The Rivers determined not only our destiny, but our nation’s as well. The Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology notes that the Sioux word Missouri means town of the large canoes, which accurately describes […]
………. “Just because you are a Character doesn’t mean you have Character.” The Wolf (Harvey Keitel), in Pulp Fiction. Pete Rose certainly performed as a memorable character on the fields of Major League Baseball. He rose to the highest level of stardom; his descent after his playing career proved just as dramatic. […]
1964 World Champion Cardinals “The 1964 Cardinals never won a game that they could afford to lose; and never lost a game that they had to win.” Bob Broeg, the late Post-Dispatch sportswriter. Broeg’s quote serves as fitting epitaph for the 1964 world championship team that started that season as probable contenders, and ended the […]
Missouri officials announced plans to sell two Missouri state office buildings located in downtown St. Louis—including the historic Wainwright Building—and to move many of the effected 600 state employees to Chesterfield. The ostensible reason for the move was explained as ‘primarily financial’. However, the underlying motivation for the move appears vindictive at worst, narrow-minded at […]
Hello again, everybody. Jack Buck here along with Harry Caray up at his heavenly restaurant noshing on some angel food cake. We’re here to tell everyone that the reports of our death were not exaggerated, but the rumored death of the Redbirds earlier this season was indeed an exaggeration. That’s right Jack, for when […]
“When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that’s amore.” Two local yokels witness the full moon rising. The one asks: “What’s closer, the moon or Florida?” The other replies: “Duh. Can you see Florida?” “That lunatic just cut me off!” We make jokes and sing of love in conjunction with the […]
Hockey ices the fastest game in the world of sports. Players skate swifter than Olympic sprinters; shoot vulcanized pucks at goaltenders with the velocity of a howitzer; collide with each other with brute force; and finesse around defenders with balletic grace. The USA Olympic hockey team that defeated the Russians proved how compelling a high […]
Fate carries some aloft like seeds to the wind dropping them amidst a sea of trees and saplings to compete for the sunlight. Those same winds carried Whitey Herzog both near and far until he finally settled near his place of origin. Dorrel Norman Elvert “Whitey” Herzog was born on November 9, 1931, in New […]
A full eclipse differs dramatically from a partial eclipse, the difference being literally night and day. Even at 98% coverage, the sun still pours out enormous candle power. Then suddenly, the moon covers the whole of the sun, and darkness descends like a flip of the switch. The witnessing throng lets out a collective gasp […]