Reid Collins
KENSINGTON, Maryland — Before many of you were born, or moved east, the Eastern Seaboard would disappear at this time of year. It was probably unhealthful. It was smoke from burning leaves. The motorized leaf-catcher was unknown. Raking leaves was a…
The NFL is coming to grips with a ghost that has haunted it since audiences became civilized. Concussion. Inflicted more often when football helmets designed to prevent that very thing collide with 200-pound men propelling them at top speed. Part…
Having made a car trip to northern New Jersey over the holiday I feel constrained to pledge never to try that again. You can get around the Baltimore by-pass with the ease with which you can negotiate the Beltway around…
“Have a seat,” used to be a polite invitation, which now has metamorphosed to “Where are the chairs?” Time was not long ago that businesses provided chairs, inside and out front. The thought occurred at a well-attended antiques show out…
Hard to believe as a relentless sun bakes the northern hemisphere, as America observes half a century of men landing on the moon, as the space shuttle prepares for retirement and science considers putting men on asteroids and then Mars,…
Imagine turning on your television set in the morning and there is a Mullah offering prayer in Arabic! You turn to the next channel and there are Chinese, speaking Chinese. The NASA channel again is in a foreign language! First thought:…
Is it possible? After all the caterwalling over aid, flights of seriously ill Haitians have been halted by the United States in a dispute over who pays for it! Or, if some are to be believed, they were stopped because…
Tired of hearing about Tiger Woods, and the media’s “slicing” of him? (We’ll avoid “hooking,” the slices’ counterpart here.) Try this: Woods is no worse, or better, than the other half of the gender world — women. They are no…
Are we being fooled, in this advanced age of electronics and swift communications? Try a few. There is the series of banks ads: Two little girls are asked by a man if they’d like a pony. “Yes,” is the answer…
The outrages of Ft. Hood and Orlando have become occasions once more for journalistic misuse of the language. If you were shot but not killed, you were “wounded.” The policewoman credited with stopping Ft. Hood’s murderous Major is a “heroine.”…
