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"Honey, what was that noise I heard in there?" I was in the den watching basketball and my wife was in the bedroom doing something or other. "That was just me singing," she said. "Why?" "Oh. It sounded like somebody was clubbing a goat in there," I told her. More ... "Have a good day!" the clerk at the checkout counter said to me as I left the store. This expression is often used now in the marketplace and among friends. It is a good one. If spoken in sincerity, it is an expression of caring, something we can all use. More ... Perhaps you shouldn't look a gift chicken in the beak, but there was something more than a little off-putting about all the self-congratulation and awe that accompanied the USC athletics department's recent "contribution" of $15 million to the university to help pay for ... academics. More ... Columns RSS feed |
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