PoorRichardsExcuseMissouri 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 […]
March Lamb chased off March Lion. This atypical weather comes on the heels of a February knockdown of Old Man Winter, which forebodes an extended summer that drains denizens, withers crops, and ebbs rivers. The absence of capricious March’s hot and cold weather rouses consciousness of a warming globe—man made or not. Alas, where art […]
“Pollution is not limited to the air we breathe and the water we drink; it can equally offend the eye and ear.” Former Supreme Court Chief Justice, Warren Burger. We of course endure a certain level of pollution ranging from smokestacks to tail pipes. The same may be said of billboards that prove offensive to […]
Anyone familiar with air travel knows that we misname airports. We joined the wrong word with ‘port’. Air—a nebulous word that lacks gravitas—connotes nothing. Another “A” word better defines the dreadful experience of commercial flying. Angst: “a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition….” Port: “a gate or […]
The MLB network recently aired a biography of George Brett—a dynamic player of the first order whose exploits dim with the passing of time. On a baseball channel that oft repeats programs, there appears to be no re-run scheduled anytime soon of the star who performed in the Midwest hinterlands. Factoring in his ability to […]