Guest Opinion | Wednesday, August 15,2007

The Dr. Fitzgerald conspiracy

He says that I jump from topic to topic and don’t make sense

Untitled Document One last shot at the Great American Novel, and I need help. I’m taking an online writing course from a university. It’s a simple agenda: Students ar

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, August 1,2007

Cycling Bugs

The Tour de France had nothing on the Tour de Yorkville

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document It’s Tour de France time, but we’re not interested here, because no Americans are in the hunt — but I’m looking for a new sport to watch

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, July 25,2007

The handsome man and the good wife

It helps to have someone who shares your delusions

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document He hadn’t always been handsome — indeed, until the age of 15 he was average-looking — but then Tony “Mole” McMurphy set him straig

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, July 18,2007

The people’s work

How the governor and one of his constituents take care of business

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document She lived in the four-room house her father built. She had been away from home only once, 37 years ago, one year in college. She came home pregnant. The baby

Guest Opinion | Tuesday, July 3,2007

Resumé padding

Or the man who understood George W. Bush

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document It’s a beautiful day, normal people are doing normal things, and I’ve just finished a three-hour online debate with five twentysomething college-stu

Bybee | Wednesday, June 27,2007

Man talk

At their core, they’re all basically idiots

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document It’s a perfect night for a ballgame, and I’ve lucked into box seats only five rows behind the Sox dugout. The young couple to my left is discussing

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, June 6,2007

A speech for the ages

Rites of passage — but nobody is listening

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document He has a commanding presence and deep rich voice. He speaks, and no one listens. The grandparents here have heard it all in another time; they have hear

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, May 30,2007

The name game

Things get hairy until justice is served

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document One upon a time when honesty was prized and a man was defined by his work, Mort the Barber stopped cutting hair. As far as anyone knew Mort had been cutting h

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, May 16,2007

Vacationing on the edge of reality

In which a mountain man flings silly women into the abyss

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document My wife, her brother, sister-in-law, two nephews, and a niece-in-law are hiking the Grand Canyon. It’s down, around, exploring, then up and out — fo

Guest Opinion | Wednesday, May 2,2007

Squeeze play

When the skies turn unfriendly, there’s turbulence ahead

By Doug Bybee

Untitled Document Two seats have opened up in a Las Vegas poker tournament, and Mookie and I have locked in over the Internet. No time to drive; we have to fly. Mookie doesn̵