Stories from Thursday, March 21, 2002

In the Heartland of America, we are serious about agriculture. Real serious. For the most part, that is commendable. But there are times when we take it a little too far. We worry and stew. We complain. The trouble is, we sometimes get carried away and forget to remind ourselves and others how truly special it is to live on a farm...

How many of you remember that testosteronally-ladened military statement "kill them all -- let God sort them out?" It's appropriate for the First Round on my NCAA bracket. It's as if a grenade hit my bracket and scattered it to the Four Corners of the Universe...

Once again spring has arrived and the battle of the sexes is more than evident. In the 1800s Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to love." Yeah, right. Times can't have changed that much and let's face it -- in the spring the fancy of a man of any age lightly turns to fishing, boating, camping, golfing and tearing a car apart and putting it back together...