Batting helmets offered protection but caused problems as well
I drove past a park in town the other day and noticed two young boys playing catch with a baseball....
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Time comes to a dead stop inside MRI
"Time flies," they say. Well, let me assure you, it doesn't fly inside an MRI; it comes to a dead...
Swing set brings back fond memories
The house I live in came equipped with a swing set. The family who had owned the house before I...
Saudi Arabia deserves worldwide condemnation
Will Saudi Arabia ever join modern civilization? Or will it remain a virtual medieval country? Alas, the latter seems likely....
Why don’t Oklahomans build tornado shelters?
People in Oklahoma must all be dumb because they don't have tornado shelters or even basements. I get mad when...
‘Guy talk’ can make me feel inadequate
Sometimes, as I guy, I feel a little inadequate. Those occasions usually occur when I am hanging around other guys...
Transistor radio was link to outside world
When I was a wee lad growing up in the country near a small Central Minnesota burg called Pearl Lake,...
At 100, ‘Rite of Spring’ still startles
One of the cultural landmarks of the 20th Century, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, turned 100 just two days...
