PoorRichardsExcuse“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 […]
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 […]
A 50-year Forest Park legacy One of St. Louis’ most beautiful landmarks, the Mark C. Steinberg Ice Skating Rink in Forest Park, celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. Ceremonies at the rink last Saturday included presentations, skating races and figure skating demonstrations. This Saturday, it will be 50 years to the day since it opened. […]
Our City’s church spires stand as testaments to historic St. Louis’ remarkable growth, and the Catholic parish system that grew entwined with it. Today, church bells resonate with tales of the Catholic Church’s retrenchment when the St. Louis Archdiocese announced 35 church closures, and yet to be announced school closings. These stark realities converse the […]
Church steeples cast evening shadows across St. Louis highways as retreating commuters sail home to safe suburban harbors. These spires stand as testaments to our historic City’s remarkable growth while their church bells resonate with tales of urban decline. Many city churches have already closed while still more stand on the precipice as the St. […]
The recent execution of Kevin Johnson by lethal injection conjures Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel, The Idiot where the story’s protagonist describes how he would paint a picture of a guillotine execution that he witnessed in France, which still proves apt today: “……the convict’s face as white as paper; the priest holding up the cross, the man […]
After years of riding the high tide of burgeoning revenues, the feudal lords of baseball find themselves at loggerheads with the serfs, their grandee ball playing field hands. After Covid, internal political turmoil and now inflation and the war in Ukraine, their timing could not be worse. Major League Baseball’s battle over the Game’s immense […]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lived his life in accordance with his words, and his conscience when he said: “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” He was neither politic nor always […]