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Late winter/Early spring flowering fruit tree at Dehler Park

If alliteration offends your poetic rules then I am sorry. To me it seems to come naturally, like thirds and sixths on the piano or in the choir, some choirs anyway.

Four baseball games were played by the young men of Montana State University at Billings against the young men of Central Washington University this past Friday and Saturday afternoon at Dehler Park.

Apparently there is no “mercy rule” in this conference or at least for these games, so some of the games’ scores resembled football scoring. I checked out the first (more…)

I was walking down Broadway a few days ago to celebrate my 70th birthday, my continued convalescence from an irritating case of diverticulitis, and because I was hungry for a little toasted cheese and soup from the Soup Place on Broadway, when I noticed that the Babcock Building on that venerable street was looking a little (more…)

1st printing dust jacket of Penn Warren's famous novel about Governor Huey Long of Louisiana

Because the Billings Gazette is very selective about which George Will columns they publish I thought it might be useful to remind everyone about one from last summer in which Will calls President Obama an “ivy-league Huey Long.”

This appeared in Newsweek. I guess the editors of that left-leaning magazine were not (more…)

Taking 40 winks in the middle of the day may reduce the risk of death from heart disease, particularly in young healthy men, say researchers.

A six-year Greek study found that those who took a 30-minute siesta at least three times a week had a 37% lower risk of heart-related death.

I hope they didn’t spend too much (more…)