In the world of pop music, this date has a significance that's historical. You may recall two songs with lyrics that contained the common date. The songs were released ten years apart from one another.

Phlash Phelps touched on this on his SiriusXM 6 morning program today, but this is June 3, a familiar date on two different songs. Neil Diamond and Bobbie Gentry shared two tales with the world when the time came. Bobbie went first with "Ode To Billie Joe",...

Yes, sports fans, things are really that bad in California. There have been more reasons for this writer not to visit Cali than otherwise, but you have to look at the big picture. This used to be a strong Republican hotbed. Conservatives once led the way for Cali's prosperity and economic success.

Thirty years ago.

Not today. The left wing has become unhinged and a contingent of full-blown extremism has corrupted a sizable portion of the Golden...

Amarillo baseball fans are in the midst of enjoying the novelty of getting minor league baseball back in their fair burg for the first time in four years. At this writing, the Sod Poodles are in first place in the Texas League South.

How great is that, two teams from West Texas in the same division with Frisco and Corpus Christi? It's happening. Panhandle patrons are cheering their San Diego Padres Double-A team, and Ted Leitner's got to be loving that. And then,...

As the 2020 elections near, here are some words of wisdom ---->

"Let's not seek the Republican answer, or the Democratic answer, but the right answer" --

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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top 10

01 Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge #1), Elizabeth Strout 2008
02 The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten #1), Maja Lunde 2015
03 The Art Forger, B.A. Shapiro 2012
04 The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Lisa See 2017
05 Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens 2018
06 Exhalation, Ted Chiang 2019
07 The Night Fire (Renee Ballard #3, Harry Bosch #22), Michael Connelly 2019
08 A Dangerous Man, Robert Crais 2019
09 Beartown...