This month marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown in Virginia, the first permanent British settlement in the New World. However, most people overlook Jamestown as the beginning of the United States and focus on the Puritans/Pilgrims who settled 13 years later in Massachusetts. We still regard the Pilgrims as a freedom-seeking group [...]

The New York Yankees’ Jason Giambi has spoken out about the use of steroids by major league baseball players, and neither the Yankees nor MLB is particularly happy about it.
Among other things, Giambi said that baseball should apologize for the widespread steroid abuse prevalent since sometime in the 1980s.  He also said that steroids [...]

I never heard of the guy, and his name could be a great trivia question if anyone in the country could remember the nation’s heritage prior to MTV.
He said, “What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.”
Who was he?

Being sick and emaciated for the past week or ten days has given me some time out of mind–you know, that kind of delirium that actually puts things into perspective–to assess my situation and life in general.
Downsized from my last job two years ago way before retirement time, but too old to be rehired when [...]