by admin | Jun 3, 2010 | News
Last week, after taking a few moments to praise an astute employee of Perry County and lambaste the state of Montana for its alleged role in stealing Shermans Creek, I wrote about the history of latitude and longitude. Actually, I only got as far as latitude before I...
by admin | May 27, 2010 | News
While champagne corks were still popping in celebration of the restoration of the long-lost “s” to Shermans Creek, eagle-eyed public servant Dave Unger was puzzling over the official letter from Lou Yost of the United States Board on Geographic Names. You...
by admin | May 20, 2010 | News
Sometimes a column will simply hijack itself. For instance, this week I sat down to write about one of my pet peeves: overconfidence. Overconfidence, whether it’s issuing from the mouth of a salesman (“‘Toyota’ means ‘reliability’...
by admin | May 13, 2010 | News
Back in September of last year, I asked what I thought was a pretty simple question: when had the name of Perry County’s beloved stream changed from Shermans Creek to Sherman Creek? I wasn’t the only one who noticed the change. Several readers emailed me...
by admin | May 6, 2010 | News
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one should always treat a microphone as if it were on. Joe Biden could use a little help on this point. Also, more recently, the U.K.’s beleaguered Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. One of the signature humiliations...
by admin | Apr 29, 2010 | News
April 29th isn’t exactly a date that lives in infamy. The musical “Hair” opened on the 29th back in 1968. It’s the date in 1945 that Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun got hitched in a Berlin bunker, and thus the day before their romantic double...
