Apr 1, 2026 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) With apologizes to Stephen Wright, Jerry Seinfeld and George Carlin, we share the following at your own risk: •Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? •Does the Little...
Mar 25, 2026 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener This is one of those topics I probably should avoid. Similar to the axiom that politics and religion should never be discussed in polite company. But let us plunge ahead because I see no reason to shy from this pet topic. I am not particularly fond of...
Mar 18, 2026 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener A homonym, as Mrs. Lewis’ CHS English students had better recall, (if they are still alive and dementia hasn’t set in) is a word that sounds like another or perhaps is spelled the same as another but has a different meaning. And homonyms are one of the...
Mar 11, 2026 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an author, humorist, lecturer and skilled orator, observer on the American life and (horrors!) a newspaper reporter whose is better known by his pen name Mark Twain which he took from the riverboat jargon meaning 12 feet of...
Jan 14, 2026 | Curt Comments
By Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) I dismissed some mild stomach queasiness as eating too much holiday food. But as the morning wore on the stomach pains sharpened to occasional bolts of electricity of the 220 volt variety and...
Dec 24, 2025 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of just about everything. He is the national saint of Russia and Greece and churches named after him number in the thousands – more than 400 in Great Britain alone. He is the patron saint of judges,...
