Explaining ‘Yardi Gras’ to a national audience
(Feb. 4) Not even a pandemic can contain the whimsically celebratory spirit of Mardi Gras. In Mobile, Alabama, where Mardi Gras in North America was born, and in New Orleans […]
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Woke writers wrongly wrest Hall of Fame spot from Curt Schilling
(Jan. 27) Baseball writers who refuse to vote for pitcher Curt Schilling for the Hall of Fame are furthering the awful trend of enmeshing sports with national politics. Schilling frequently […]
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Remembering Hank Aaron’s home run chase
(Jan. 22) MOBILE, Alabama — For those too young to remember it, Hank Aaron’s pursuit of Babe Ruth’s all-time Major League Baseball home run record was one of the most […]
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Belatedly celebrating Gambit’s 40th birthday
Note: This was published more than a month ago, but I forgot to post it here. Better late than never. — Quin My two years at Gambit, a full three […]
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Amid cold and virus, all that jazz
Note: If this tribute to New Orleans is behind a firewall, I urge you either to subscribe to the Washington Examiner, or to wait a few days and check again, […]
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Before Christmas, seeing hope
(Dec. 22) What the whole country is experiencing in these last days before Christmas has the same feel as what New Orleanians felt just before Christmas 15 years ago, less […]
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Ignorant school board ‘cancels’ Jefferson and Mason
(Dec. 10. This was an official editorial of the Washington Examiner): The Falls Church City Public Schools board in Virginia beclowned itself this month by voting unanimously to remove the names […]
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NASDAQ goes idiotically ‘politically correct’
(Dec. 2) The Securities and Exchange Commission ought to reject a proposal from the NASDAQ Stock Exchange that would require diversity quotas on the boards of companies listed on its […]
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Kurt Russell tells actors to stop spouting off
(Dec. 3) We’ve all become so accustomed by now to Hollywood actors spouting off about politics that it shocks us when a big star spouts off against Hollywood politicking. That’s […]
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R.I.P., Rafer Johnson, Great American
(Dec. 3) Olympic decathlon gold medalist Rafer Johnson, who died Dec. 3 at age 86, epitomized the phrase “American hero.” When his event’s winner was known universally as “the world’s […]
