While taking a leisurely lunchtime walk through the park yesterday, I was struck by another observation about the current cigarette imbroglio. Actually, I was almost struck by stray ash but the observation was a direct hit: while smoking is now prohibited anywhere on the grounds of local hospitals it apparently is still permitted in ambulances, [...]

The case of the disgruntled firefighter candidate was again the topic of conversation on the Jim Leach show this morning, this time with the emphasis placed on the most recent bumblings of the city’s legal department.
I agree that the city’s handling of this situation has been ham-handed at best, the document authorizing the release of [...]

I’m not a big fan of sports movies, especially dramas. They’re usually very clichéd and follow the same basic premise: a group of disparate and often underestimated characters are brought together and accept the almighty concept of team which then culminates, in slow-motion, with either a dramatic victory or a heartbreaking loss that is actually [...]

Congratulations to the creators of Blondie who for 75 years haven’t been making America laugh. I don’t know what exactly they’ve been doing over there in the funny pages for all these years, but it hasn’t been all that funny. Still, anybody who is able to pull one over on people for that long deserves [...]

More on T-shirtsI neglected to provide the local angle on yesterday’s post on novelty T-shirts.
Probably the most notorious shirt this town has ever produced was one promoting the fictional “Kelly Smith Film Festival.” Smith, you may remember, was bureau chief for WICS who fell from grace in an embarrassing, and to many, highly [...]