June 16, 2010
What Would AmocoMan Do?
In the late 1970’s/early 1980’s, Amoco Torch magazine, at the time one of the largest circulated company magazines in the world, featured a comic strip called “AmocoMan.” It was the story of a mild-mannered oil company employee Jeffrey Ledfrey (lead...
June 15, 2010
Flip-Cammed
This may sound counter-intuitive, but I kind of feel sorry for Bobby Etheridge. He is the North Carolina Congressman who is the new YouTube hero. He is the guy who attacked some college kids who had the nerve to ask...
June 14, 2010
World Cup
Like Big Wheels, I missed the soccer generation. Let me explain. My younger brother was the first in my family to get a Big Wheel, because they came out just at the right time for his height and weight. I...
June 11, 2010
Friday Musings
It is an overdone cliché to thank the good Lord for Friday, but this has been a particularly long week, so stringing a coherent column together might be beyond my capability today. But that won’t stop me from some Friday...