Loyal Scaiaholics will recall last week, when I explained how my pick-up truck, 15 years old and a stalwart representative of American know-how, logged its 200,000 mile.Rolls-Royce of North America found this unacceptable.Loyal Scaiaholics will also recall I’ve taken some $250,000 cars for a test drive.Rolls-Royce of North America also…
Earlier this year, I learned many of my Facebook associates are epidemiologists who specialize in the study of coronaviruses, posting articles and commenting on other people’s posts with strongly worded opinions about how viruses work.I had no idea many of those same Facebook associates are also experts in Constitutional law, who know exactly whether President Trump should or…
The Dallas Cowboys can only open AT&T Stadium to 25% capacity. Their first home game was last weekend against Atlanta, and the Cowboys launched a program with their food vendor to deliver concessions stand items to people’s homes.When I wrote that story, some people commented on the station’s Facebook page that Jerry Jones had just…
Loyal Scaiaholics will recall how I’ve covered the Palace Theater’s stalwart light bulb vigorously. And by “vigorously,” I mean, “once.”But today was the light bulb’s 112th birthday.And what a day to celebrate! Today, museums, restaurants, stores and more could open at 75% capacity, but the head of the museum says she wasn’t even filling…
At the risk of editorializing, I think many of us would agree 2020 has been a borderline grind.Which brings us to the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Loyal Scaiaholics will recall I’ve felt ways about trying to teach punk kids about the attacks as a history lesson.Kids entering college now don’t know a pre-9…
Years ago, before society was discontinued, I made a tragically brief run at becoming a Major League umpire.In fact, my umpire school class appears to have made history. At the beginning of the school, the Major League umpires who worked as instructors got us all hootin’ and clappin’ when they’d tell us somewhere in that hotel ballroom was…
Back at Ball State, I had a professor who proudly declared he would fail anyone who used the term “tragic” in a news script. We called him Professor Carlin because he looked somewhat like George Carlin.If you have to tell people something is tragic, he explained, it wasn’t really tragic. The tragic-itude (It’s possible he did…