PoorRichardsExcuse“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 […]
Santa has come and gone, having left behind his Christmas toys of forever joy. Cars and planes, games and trains; a princess and gnomes, with castles and homes for them to slumber; army men and guns to decimate our numbers; a thousands Lego blocks to trip over in blunder, making one fall hard asunder. Toys […]
Hamlet’s Covid Soliloquy: To Vax, or not to Vax? With apologies to Shakespeare, Hamlet’s paraphrased soliloquy “to vax, or not to vax”, retrofitted for presumed freedom fighters challenging the government’s mandate for all to vaccinate against the coronavirus: To vax, or not to vax; that is the question?Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe […]
Pandora’s Ammo Box In Greek mythology, Pandora was given a box from the gods that contained special gifts, but was told not to open it. Curiosity won out. Pandora opened the box that unleashed sickness and hardship on the world. Today, ‘opening Pandora’s Box’ connotes the law of unintended consequences when an innocent and perceived […]