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I wonder how hot it is on Mercury in the summertime. Mercury, as you know, is the closest planet to the sun and therefore the hottest. This city, as you

Searching for the truth is becoming harder to define let alone to find.

In recent years, the search for the elusive truth has become much more difficult to find.

One of the great unifying elements of sports is a group, city, state or nation coming together to cheer for a team. It is especially satisfying when the team represents your city, state or nation with class.

I recently had an accident that has severely limited the use of my left arm. There is no long-term problem other than moving my left arm into position to do things like type or pull up my pants on the left side can be quite painful.

Let me set the record straight. Readers of this column know of my passion for Blue Bell, but it was not me who opened and licked Tin Roof before returning it to the Walmart shelf in Lufkin. It would have been Dutch Chocolate.

When I look back to the Fourth of July during my earliest years, it wasn’t a party. There were no computer-generated displays of fireworks.

It would begin, instead, with a quiet picnic lunch underneath a cross.

There are several car commercials on TV that show people dancing in the front seat of their cars. That’s a good reason to buy a brand-new $33,000 car: so you can get a $500 sound system. Good deal, huh?

The movie starring Robin Williams loosely told the story of Armed Forces Radio Station DJ, Adrian Cronauer. He was gone by the time I arrived in-country in February, 1968.