Jeffrey Gordon Merritt used a lunch bag and a BB pistol he bought for $30 from Wal-Mart to rob four banks in four months."Let's just get this over with," he told a teller at Andersen Bank in Palm Harbor on Sept. 16. ...more

January 29, 2009

Here are some of the looks our fashion guru loved and loathed last year. ...more

January 8, 2009

Da'Rel Scott got out of the doghouse in time to run over Nevada. ...more

December 31, 2008

The nomination of Barack Obama to be president was a cruel hoax to play on the Democratic faithful. ...more

September 21, 2008

I'm afraid that I will have to decline Jim Gries' generous offer to sit in his rocking chair and explain Social Security to his 3-year-old granddaughter. And I'm amused that Mr. Gries does not consider it "fear-mongering" to call the Social Security system a "weapon of monetary destruction (WMD)." Actually, although he says that his earlier letter was a recital of fact, there is nothing in any of his letters that backs up his hysterical attack on the Social Security system. ...more

August 15, 2008

ELFERS - It took a dare to get Don Cozby back to his first love. "I gave up being a musician in 1956," the 77-year-old California native recalled last week. "I didn't have a violin, I didn't listen to music, and I didn't play." ...more

January 16, 2008