How have the times changed? How has YouTube changed popular culture?
On our drive home from the children’s museum in Decatur today, our kids didn’t entertain themselves by reading the Burma Shave signs planted along the road side. They didn’t sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat as a round. Nor did they occupy themselves by looking […]

My Sunday AM column today is a rebuke to those who think red lights are for running. In the interest of fairness, I wanted to post a video of the Replacement’s doing their song, Run It, to provide a counterpoint to my position. I couldn’t find it so here’s Kids Don’t Follow off of the […]

He remembered it was about 3:35?**
 
A grand prize for the winner. You must be specific. Google all you want; I thought this up myself.
*Are riddles inherently dorky, or is it just me?
**Question mark added at the insistence of the President of the Frank Gorshin Fan Club - Springfield Chapter.

In today’s SJ-R article on 5-foot roses, the last name of a subject was concealed so that his girlfriend wouldn’t find out about his Valentine’s Day surprise. Unfortunately, this girlfriend wouldn’t have to be Jessica Fletcher to figure out that she’s the one about to be overwhelmed with gigantic flowers.

Somebody, not Kent, who knows how […]

Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, as sensible a columnist as you’ll find, wrote an interesting piece last week on why, nearly six and half years after 9/11, we’ve been spared the follow-up act that we were told to expect.
In the wake of 9/11, many experts said that a nuclear attack carried out by terrorists […]