When one nitpicks, there’s no end to it. We’re all frequently guilty, and I admit to being among chief sinners, particularly since the term’s initial usage began in 1956, the same …

It’s got to be a borderline miracle when Eastland — a town with fewer than 5,000 people — can lay claim to not one, but two “facts” worthy of the Guinness Book of …

Before choirs proclaimed He is risen, before church bells sounded around the world celebrating Jesus’ resurrection and before children skittered across lawns for multicolored eggs, I saw …

Don’t ever mention falling through cracks in the presence of the Rev. Jared Greer — unless you delight in seeing eyes roll, hair stand on end and bodily contortions with …

They’re as predictable as frantic taxpayers working until the hours are few on April 14 to meet income tax filing deadlines the following midnight. A nomadic bunch, they show up following hailstorms, cell phones in hand with promises to examine roofs. Yep, an unexpected call from an unknown number.

Dr. Newbury, longtime university president, continues to speak and write. The Idle American, begun in 2003, is one of the nation's longest-running syndicated humor columns. Contact: 817-447-3872. …

Usual readers-- both of you, and a few relatives who sometimes read to see if I “got it right” --may remember that a month ago, I decided to put my “quill back in the goose” until September.

THE IDLE AMERICAN Dr. Don Newbury is a longtime public speaker and former university president who writes weekly.      Dr. Russell H. Dilday, Jr. — for 16 years president of …