• Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor gloom of night has stopped me from watching Monday Night Football for more than 20 years. But Dennis Miller's silly chatter has.

  • Some people drive through parking lots like they were driving out on a city street. They don't seem to realize that some little kid can suddenly pop out from between parked cars at any time. Although it was predicted in this column before the election that things would get "desperate and ugly," I had no idea that it would get as desperate or as ugly as it did. Anyone who accurately predicted what would happen after the election would have to have had a warped mind and should be rushed to the nearest psychiatric hospital for observation.

  • If you are making New Year's resolutions, you might want to include cutting people some slack -- starting with yourself.

  • Conservatives are making a serious mistake when they try to get the public schools to teach abstinence and traditional values. Since the education establishment is firmly on the side of the counter-culture, and there is no realistic way to monitor what they are doing in the classrooms, that isn't going to work. Instead, the schools should be forced to get out of the business of indoctrinating students or experimenting with their psyches.

  • This year's cliffhanger election shows how unreliable statistical projections can be. The same kinds of projections that led the big television networks to give Florida to Vice President Gore and then take it back are used to predict "global warming" and other politicized alarms.

  • It can't be the end of the year already. This must be another election-year trick.