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The comptroller general of the United States -- basically, the federal government's chief accountant -- is traveling the country warning...

Has any recent news story been more dependent on correct verb tenses than the O.J. Simpson flap? Consider this passage from an Associated P...

The other day, my horoscope read, in part: "You can entertain others with unusual tidbits of information or lightning-fast reflexes....

Much is being made over the composite "police sketch" of Jack the Ripper done for a new Channel Five TV documentary. As always, t...

I was pleased to read in Sunday's paper about Chick & Ruth's Delly in Annapolis, where the Pledge of Allegiance is recited ever...

"We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher." -- Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, on the...

Michael Crichton's next novel, appropriately titled Next , is about the abuse of gene patents, so Crichton is giving interviews about th...

Back in October, I posted a partial list of movie quotes that Sydney and I invoke in our everyday conversation. But I never followed up by...

My post about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- the event and the Gordon Lightfoot song -- generated a lot of responses. My friend Kat...

In reply to my post about James Thurber and "No News, or What Killed the Dog," Rick Bowes writes: Wow! That's my story with ...

After reading my post about the great pitcher Lefty Grove, Bruce Pringle kindly sent a link to his informative Lefty Grove tribute site, w...

"The bottom line here is that I think that the majority of folks in Maryland want Martin O'Malley as governor rather than Bob Ehrli...

You have to admire a Future Business Leader of America, newly elected as club historian, who wears a T-shirt that says "I came, I parti...

Hunters who go into the field not with "bird dogs," but with poodles, clearly are self-confident and independent, and I admire the...

My latest essay, "A Mouth for Bluejohn," is in the fall 2006 issue of NC State, the North Carolina State University alumni magaz...

To get a good view of the Clarysville Bridge, at U.S. 40 and Route 55 between Frostburg and LaVale, I had to clamber through thorny bushes d...

This sign is on Main Street in Frostburg, Md.

One of my two favorite books (the other being Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) is James Thurber's memoir of his youth in Columbus...

On this date in 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with all hands during a storm on Lake Superior. I was 11 years old, and whi...

The day after the Democrats came back, I re-read Matt Taibbi's cover story in the Nov. 2 Rolling Stone , headlined "The Worst Congr...