I don't expect to be home before the year is over, but I do have high hopes for the new one.

Good-bye, Sherman.

I will always aspire to be just like you, Mom. I love you.

The so-called rev. Terry Jones needs to burn in hell.

Four years. Eight ZIP codes. And the one thing I want for my birthday is toilet paper.

Well, here we go again.

"If it rained an ocean, I'd drink it dry and lay me doon dissatisfied."

The only baseball Hall-of-Famer from South Dakota, Sparky Anderson once said the only word that ever got him thrown out of a game was "you". Swearing was one thing, making it personal was another.

So there we were at a beach with no ocean...

And then I came home to sadness on my screen.

Don't do drugs.

Sen. Robert Byrd was so old that his mother died during the great flu epidemic of 1918.

Archival footage of Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard Round the World" is usually accompanied by Russ Hodges' radio play-by-play. The TV play-by-play, though, was done by Ernie Harwell.