Tweet My friend Doug Nye is gone, and many think his great discovery, The Chicken Curse, is gone with him. But it pops up now and then. The Chicken Curse, properly understood, is not just about the Gamecocks football team losing. So the recent winning seasons by the home team don’t mean the Curse is […]
TweetWhy didn’t Barack Obama put it away last night? Well, you can look to all sorts of causes — he had been too far behind in Ohio and Texas to do more than almost catch Hillary Clinton; some of her criticism of his supposed lack of experience had had an effect in recent days; he […]
Tweet Some of the guys in the tent backstage at “Pride and Prejudice” Saturday night were talking about the football debacle in Florida. I almost said something about the “Chicken Curse,” which was discovered and documented by the late great Doug Nye of The State, but I reflected that some of those guys were too […]
TweetA few days ago, I saw on Facebook where a mutual friend had visited Doug Nye, and he wasn’t doing well. And I thought, “I need to check on him,” and now he’s gone. My mom called me last night to say it was announced at the USC baseball game… It’s funny the things you […]
TweetHow did the Gamecocks topple the No. 1 college football team in the nation? Well, I’ll tell ya… Saturday was the first time I watched an entire Gamecocks football game ever. So of course, it follows that they had their biggest win since I moved back to SC in 1987. As you know, I’m not […]
TweetWell, this is something new. I just now got down in my external e-mail far enough to see this item from 9:37 this morning: **Press Conference Call** White House Domestic Policy Council Brief for Southern Reporters on American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, February 5, at 1:30 p.m. ET, Melody Barnes, […]
TweetMy wife is the gardener. Always has been. She’s had an organic garden going since the first time we were in a house rather than an apartment. At our current location, which is cursed with hard clay, she grows vegetables in small, raised beds. Consequently, she just goes out to pick our food daily. Depending […]