I lost an old friend over the weekend…a VERY OLD friend. Mylo Preheim gave up the ghost on Saturday just a few weeks after his 95th birthday..but, boy, did he ever pack a lot of living into those years!. He reminded me of that guy in the Dos Equis Beer commercials; one of the most…
Playing golf on Tuesday was like spending four hours strapped to the hood of a semi heading west on I-90 at 75 miles an hour. The mighty wind made for horrific playing conditions in which shots lucky enough to find the greens had to be marked quickly before they blew OFF the greens. But, that’s…
I didn’t vote in the Sioux Falls school board election on Tuesday. Now before you begin wagging your finger at me and making tsk tsk sounds questioning my citizenship qualifications, hear me out. I chose not to make a trip down to the polls because I didn’t give a rip about which of the two…
A “Flabbergasted” Judgement Day prognosticator, Harold Camping, finally popped his head out the door of his Alameda, California house Monday morning to say he wouldn’t be giving any interviews until he’s had a chance to contemplate what went wrong with his calculations that there was going to be a heavenly house cleaning on Saturday. No…
It’s been such a nice day that I thought I’d leave the TV off and get a few things done. Number one was to give those pretty yellow flowers in the yard a second baptism of weed killer because the first one didn’t take. They must not be Lutheran dandelions. I have opened the back…
(Cue music from The Godfather) Thursday’s congressional hearing on the insane increases of fuel prices, in which the heads of the five major oil companies were summoned to justify their record high profits while continuing to receive taxpayer subsidies, reminded me of those federal hearings in the Godfather II movie in which a congressional committee was looking…
Maybe my brother was right when he warned that after the age of 65, your health has a tendency to go haywire in a hurry. Oh, I’m fine except for the first time in my life I have developed allergies…or a single allergy..I don’t know. Something is making my eyes water and setting me off…
Like many of you, I didn’t get a lot of sleep Sunday night after hearing news that the world’s most wanted criminal, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9-11 and dozens of other terrorist acts across the world, had been shot dead in a raid of his million dollar hide-out in Pakistan. The last thing…
Here’s a short sample of a golf course conversation I had this past week.. “Well, Lund, I suppose you being an old newsman, you’ll be up early to watch the royal wedding, eh?” “Not hardly. To tell you the truth, I can’t understand why everybody’s so amped-up and excited over this foreign future King’s…
Well, the Trumpster has been trumped. Big shot billionaire with the big hair and head to match, Donald Trump, has turned up a losing hand in his claims that President Barack Obama isn’t a natural born U.S. Citizen and, presumably, not legally qualified to be president. But this egomaniac, who has been dipping his…