I posted my first piece on Look Back Springfield, a blog for those who want “to relive or learn about how Springfield once was –ten years ago or 200 years ago.” It’s a good blog and you should visit from time to time.
I wrote a lament for a bygone fast-food restaurant. I’ll admit that I [...]

Both McDonald’s and Hardee’s are marketing their breakfast fare at a segment of the population that had previously received scant attention from anyone outside of the aspirin and antacid industry. In their wisdom, they recognize that the chronically hung-over are a potentially lucrative market waiting to be tapped.
McDonald’s print ad is running in national magazines [...]

A gaggle of black robed judges, gathered together on the sidewalk outside the courthouse, each swigging from a bottle of hooch conspicuously concealed inside a brown paper bag. It’s an image that wouldn’t inspire much confidence in the proceedings that are carried out inside. The legal profession recognizes that the sight of rum-tickled barristers wouldn’t [...]

Tomorrow morning on AM Springfield, some lucky caller will win a free replacement window for their home. I’ve always thought this was an odd prize for a radio giveaway. It’s like raffling off a left breast augmentation, unless the winner decides to go all in and purchase the rest of the package, the prize is [...]

The National Weather Service threw the nation’s headline writers a bone when they named the latest hurricane to ravage our coasts. A Google news search reveals that the SJ-R was far from alone in evoking the name of Hank Ketcham’s incorrigible Dennis the Menace to describe conditions being left in the wake of Hurricane Dennis. [...]