Author: Ed Goldman

In the hubbub of the holidays, one headline that might have escaped your notice announced the death of the man who gave America one of its most durable but most unnecessary inventions.

In addition to getting distilled, bourbon is getting diluted, according to business reports.

By the time I started kindergarten at New York City’s Public School 106 when I was two months shy of my fifth birthday, I had two skills most of my classmates lacked: (1) I could tell time, and (2) I could play poker.

“The Devil and Daniel Webster” is a 1937 story by Stephen Vincent Benet about Satan being defended in court by the legendary lawyer in the title.

A local newspaper has advised me to not rake up the quadrillion leaves that stage their annual coup in my backyard every fall—and seem to have no intention of blowing out of town anytime soon, which would return my yard to local rule.