http://www.thedailystar.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:16:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_311034538.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_311034538.html There is only one guarantee about sports and politics _ follow them long enough, and it's only a matter of time until they break your heart. The candidate to whom you would gladly donate a kidney gets swamped at the polls.Mighty Casey strikes out. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_290094819.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_290094819.html I’ve done some exhaustive research on the matter, and I’m afraid there’s nothing to be done other than to face the awful truth with a steely resolve. Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:24:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_269034527.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_269034527.html One of the genuine joys of my job _ and golly, there are oh, so many _ is that I get to spend part of my work day trolling the Internet looking at stuff. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:48:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_248034507.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_248034507.html What will they think of us? What caricature of who we think we are will be pictured by our great-grandchildren? OK, so we probably won't mind much no matter how unflattering it might be because we shall happen to be dead at the time. Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:43:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_227003703.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_227003703.html A man is telling a simpleton that a thermos bottle keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold. “But how,” asked the puzzled listener, “does it know what’s supposed to be hot, and what’s supposed to be cold?” As for me, I’ve got this swell company-owned cell phone that I also use as an alarm clock. It has a setting to go off just on weekday mornings. Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:15:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_206034509.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_206034509.html "Education is dangerous," said Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's second-in-command and head of the Luftwaffe. "Every educated person is a future enemy." Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:43:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_178034510.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_178034510.html Over the last decade or so, it must have seemed to Maggie Barnes that my main ambition was to make her professional life as miserable as possible. Truth be known, it wasn't my main ambition. Just kind of a nice fringe benefit. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:21:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_157034518.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_157034518.html It was one of those moments when cruel reality intrudes upon delusion, and you wish cruel reality would just mind its own business for a change. Sat, 16 May 2009 09:23:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_138040004.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_138040004.html For all you husbands out there, which of these constitutes the greater threat to your traditional, heterosexual marriage? Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:54:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_115040012.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_115040012.html Didn't then-President George W. Bush say in a news conference on Nov. 7, 2005, "We do not torture"? Then why did we torture suspected terrorists _ some guilty and others innocent _ dozens and even hundreds of times? Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:38:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_094090157.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_094090157.html Goodbye, cruel world! I mean, what's the use? I'm a newspaper guy, and folks in my profession _ rarely peppy and optimistic even in the best of times _ have been particularly funereal lately. Sadly, with plenty of good reason. Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:49:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_073040012.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_073040012.html Forget the shrinking economy, my friends. We've got a real problem. In what can only be termed a shocking development, a study of religious life in America released Monday revealed that our nation is down to its last 228 million Christians. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:15:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_052034551.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_052034551.html A peek, my friends, into the not-so-distant future: "Please ... everyone ... please stay with the tour. There will be plenty of time for you to individually visit all the other exhibits after we get through this area of the Baseball Hall of Fame. "I'd like to welcome you all to Cooperstown. As most of you know, this Steroid Users Wing of the Hall was instituted way back in 2009 shortly after it was discovered that Alex Rodriguez had failed a 2003 test for illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:22:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_031034524.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_031034524.html The five college guys in a Chevy were stopped in traffic on a bridge going from El Paso toward the dog racing track in Juarez, Mexico. Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:04:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_010110351.html http://www.thedailystar.com/samcolumn/local_story_010110351.html Sometimes, we screw up. Sure, everybody does, but not as obviously as a newspaper.