chessart's retirement diaries

Has any U.S. president ever had a worse week than our current president has just had? I think not. All week news kept on dribbling out abo...

I have recently read two unusual biographies, unusual because of a specific theme which runs throughout each one. The first one is "Not...

This is an excellent biography of Earl Weaver (1930-2013), the legendary manager of the Baltimore Orioles, published just this year. Weaver ...

Word came down this week that a federal appeals court has upheld a penalty of nearly $1 million against President Donald Trump and attorney...

This was a small-budget independent film, made for less than $100,000 in 1945 (equivalent to about $1,800,00 today). Since 1945 it has becom...

An eventful Friday afternoon at Findlay dupliate bridge. Ron and I got there in tme to catch the tail end of Jim's lesson time. He was t...

This movie was based on a radio play, and as such has all the characters found in those old-time radio dramas--the cynical, hard-boiled priv...