This man will go down in history as the greatest football player never to go down in history. And he's still smiling.

The word might be fear or hate or junk or punk, but it’s nothing pretty

With expert marketing skill, Miller Beer has changed America's drinking habits, and an entire industry.

Before a player ever danced after making a routine tackle, and before a mediocrity and his agent held out for millions, and before Neon Deion, there was the Old Man, Vince Lombardi. Today, Lombardi's ghost is everywhere, but could he make it now?

Wanted: one good man, flamboyantly dressed, belly like Everest, fond of talking to Donner and Blitzen. To sprinkle a little magic and faith on a cynical world. You got a problem with that? You want a piece of Santa, my man? Then suit up and come...

Never before has the world seen such a merry meeting. Claus. Murray. Brandy. Naughty. Nice. Naughty. The historic Esquire Santa summit.

With a Tom-and-Jerry glow he felt nothing was too good for Muriel's dotty old gammer who believed In Santy and loved nice things

Marley was dead to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. Dickens was dead too. No doubt about that either; and his works were in public domain, available to any rascal who might desire to publish them in whatever form... But I digress.

Smokers don’t need our pity, as the legions of lawyers lining up to sue big tobacco assert. They don’t need the lawsuits, either. In fact, they deserve our praise. An argument in the form of a story.

Requiem for Ruben Salazar

She’s getting stronger and stronger and stronger

One evening, Matt Shaunfield overdosed on heroin and died. In the past two years, as many as ten more kids in Plano, Texas, have died for their love of the drug. This had never happened to Plano. It also had never happened to Austin or Orlando or Boulder or any of the other places in America designed to keep harm away.

Not long ago, the brilliant doctor had AIDS on the ropes, and the world tried to make him a celebrity. Now the virus counterattacks. A little peace and quiet, if you don't mind.