PARIS–I went on the internet the night before leaving Boston to see how crowded my American Airlines flight to Paris the next day was going to be. Surprise! I didn’t actually count them, but it looked as though fully half the seats were empty. Sure enough there was plenty of room and at least a…
For those of us who are long-in-the-tooth and, I’d certainly like to believe, for most of the rest of the country, the current political scene is–to say the least–distressing. Whatever happened to a frank-but-respectful exchange of ideas? Whatever happened to compromise? Today, someone who has a different opinion is “out to destroy our way…
I recently came across an article that was titled, “The 10 Most Congested Highways In America.” First of all, the headline is misleading because, when you get into the article, you discover that their survey included no less than 328 stretches of highway in the U.S. and all were legitimate candidates for making the Top…