If you meet a swordsman in the road, show him your sword.But if you meet a man who is not a pigeon racer, do not show him your pigeon.— old Zen sayingOkay, say you spend …
April 25, 1996
News & Stories
Lemon Grove to Casa Grande — the Kentucky Derby of bird racing
Union-Tribune's Self-ish History
The San Diego Union-Tribune harbors “unprofessional, childlike, head-in-the-sand attitudes toward events and ideas." The paper has "bad journalistic habits, plus [a] tendency to sound the bugle call to action whenever it feels its ideological tenets …
April 25, 1996
The top and bottom of eggs
Dear Matthew Alice: My girlfriend and I got into an argument about eggs. I said that the narrow part of the egg is the bottom. She thinks that the fatter part of the egg is …
April 25, 1996
President Clinton says he reads about 250 books a year
My library, which is more than a couple of thousand volumes, has been accumulated over a 35-year period. It’s the most diverse personal library that I’ve ever seen, and that includes the libraries of friends …
April 25, 1996
Polarized sunglasses are like dropping acid
Matt: Okay, so I’m driving along. It could be Anytown USA. Sun is out. Gotta have the sun out. I’m wearing my shades. I notice that a lot of cars around me have these weird …
April 25, 1996
Why the Pope picks the saints
Dear Matthew Alice: Are there any saints in the Bible? I don’t recall reading about Saint Abraham or Saint Lot. A Catholic friend said that Peter was the first pope and thus the first person …
April 25, 1996