Well, it’s around 5:00 PM here in Paradise, as our latest hurricane scare plows north to scour clean the streets of the Big Apple. For you newbies, Paradise is beautiful Ponte Vedra Beach, home of the PGA and ATP Tours, in the No-Income-Tax state of Florida. Now that the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in [...]

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but in 1927 the opera Schwanda the Bagpiper was first performed at the Czech National Opera in Prague. Schwanda had been married to Dorota for a week when the local robber, Babinsky, took refuge in Schwanda’s house and fell in love with Dorota. (Hey. It’s an opera [...]