Jan 15
The most recent round of inductions to the Hall of Fame has caused some kerfuffle about performance enhancing drugs. What, if any, effect should using these drugs have on the HOF ambitions of the players? It makes me long for the good old days. The days when baseball was no pink tea and mollycoddles but …
Nov 27
I only rarely smoke from this pipe and never in public. Being large, ostentatious and fragile, I dislike my pipes to upstage me. Plus I’m not even a Sherlock Holmes fan. Like Jesus, he’s a bit of a know-it-all. A friend picked this up for me in Turkey. I had given him money to buy …
Oct 08
Charlie the smoking chimpanzee died of a heart attack on Wednesday and it wasn’t smoking that killed him. The average chimp lives to 40 and Charlie lived to 52. Charlie was one of the first things I posted about on this blog, way back in 2005, and I stand by what I said then: Smoking …
Sep 22
While buying tobacco the other day, a little pipe caught my eye. I returned to buy it and then, holding it in my hand, decided not to. What looked like silver was actually just some cheap metal and the wood was of low quality. It had a nice shape and it was an okay sort …
Feb 27
Many people find it cruel to allow a chimp to smoke and drink. If someone was shipping Johnny Walker and Marlboros into the wild and selling them to the chimps, I’d agree. But when a captive ape takes up smoking and drinking, I cheer it on. Sending said ape to rehab is cruel. A caged …
