When I go out of town, I want the weather in the place I’m going to be better than it is at home. If I go to Florida, I want it to be 80 degrees and sunny every day — but while I’m away, I want St. Louis to be cloudy, windy, and 10 degrees. […]
By our apathy for the Sacagawea dollar and the Susan B. Anthony dollar, you’d think the Treasury Department would have learned its lesson, but they haven’t. This Thursday, the latest attempt at trying to convince Americans to use dollar coins instead of bills will begin, when new $1 coins will go into general circulation — […]
I’ll admit that I don’t understand what was so offensive about the Snickers commercial that ran during the Super Bowl. The company has pulled the ad because some gay advocacy groups complained that it was homophobic. This is the ad that showed two men working on a car. One of them takes out a Snickers […]
Coffee shops that serve pancakes that are the same size as the plate, so that when you pour the syrup on, it rolls off onto the table. Cocktail parties with food but no tables, so you spend the evening standing with a plate in one hand and a glass in the other, then have to […]
Following up on my column earlier this week about whether cigarette smoking would be considered a disqualifier when voters consider a presidential candidate, I got to thinking about what else the American public would hold against a politician in a national election. Let’s leave out illegal activity, or a criminal record, and let’s consider this […]
Would you vote for a candidate who admitted past drug use? That was the question this week after Lois Romano pointed out that, in his autobiography (published 11 years ago), Barack Obama talked about his use of cocaine and marijuana as a young man. When I asked my callers whether — politics aside — that […]