I know I am not supposed to say this . . . But I'll say it anyway. : Straight Talk from Cleveland's Legendary Newspaper Columnist

by FEAGLER DICK

• ISBN13: 9781886228528
• ISBN10: 1886228523
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Gray & Co

Summary

"Once we all believed in something called common sense," writes Dick Feagler. "These days common sense is often regarded as a subversive activity." That would make Feagler one of Cleveland's leading subversives, for his widely-read newspaper columns regularly flout political correctness in favor of a simpler, more old-fashioned pursuit of the truth.

Author Biography

Dick Feagler is a featured columnist for The Plain Dealer Richard J. Osborne, a veteran professional writer and editor, has won numerous journalism awards and twice has served as president of the Press Club of Cleveland

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	9	(11)
Preface	11	(4)
THE SIMPLE TRUTH
Harsh lessons	15	(2)
Fit to print	17	(2)
Aunt Emma's porch	19	(2)
Born too late	21	(3)
The gap widens	24	(2)
The best reason	26	(2)
Latrine duty	28	(2)
Lazy daze	30	(3)
Six-billionth baby	33	(2)
Harnessing the homeless	35	(2)
Street stories	37	(2)
Lessons learned at dinner	39	(2)
Facing the music	41	(2)
Glenn's mission	43	(2)
Another Vietnam casualty	45	(3)
No more parades	48	(2)
The witch platoon	50	(2)
Happy Y2K	52	(3)
Reflections on the wall	55	(2)
Holding on to hope	57	(2)
Falling in love	59	(2)
Love is work	61	(2)
Everlasting life	63	(2)
Clean underpants	65	(2)
The right jerk	67	(3)
How do you labor?	70	(2)
Thank you	72	(2)
Mall madness	74	(2)
The perfect tree	76	(3)
A Christmas meal	79	(2)
An honorable man	81	(2)
Christmas at Aunt Ida's	83	(4)
OUR TOWN
Homeless hospitality	87	(2)
The bum industry	89	(2)
Robertson's gift	91	(3)
A merry memory	94	(2)
Just more smut	96	(3)
Fat and sassy	99	(2)
St. Elsewhere	101	(2)
Vengeance and vigils	103	(2)
Valley of fire	105	(2)
A summer duel	107	(2)
Fiddling with racism	109	(2)
Letter to the Klan	111	(3)
Another fine mess	114	(2)
Block busting	116	(2)
A backslider's prayer	118	(2)
Jacobs the realist	120	(3)
Let Rocco sing	123	(2)
When baseball was fun	125	(2)
Why Wahoo must go	127	(2)
Baseball signals spring	129	(2)
Legacy of a school	131	(2)
Teachers take a walk	133	(2)
Mayor's greatest challenge	135	(2)
Demolished dreams	137	(2)
Polka Heaven	139	(3)
Short and sweet	142	(2)
The best band	144	(2)
The wrong Hall	146	(2)
Under a Rock	148	(3)
Getting the snub	151	(2)
POLITICS AND OTHER CRIMES
Sheppard cop remembers	153	(3)
A haunted son	156	(2)
The Sanity Amendment	158	(2)
Death in the abstract	160	(2)
A tough old flag	162	(2)
A hollow child	164	(2)
Not their martyr	166	(3)
Jerry pandering	169	(2)
Coyne's call	171	(2)
A daughter's plea	173	(2)
Goodbye, Elian	175	(3)
Reno's rescue	178	(2)
Murder in Mayberry	180	(2)
A dream denied	182	(2)
Gabriel's bad news	184	(2)
English spoken here	186	(2)
Wishes for Oscar	188	(2)
A brave father	190	(2)
We, the people	192	(2)
More than Kent State	194	(2)
A good run	196	(2)
Merchants of sleaze	198	(2)
Unfit to serve	200	(2)
One man's truth	202	(3)
Celestial mouthwash	205	(2)
The death of shame	207	(2)
The gutless wonder	209	(3)
Monica at the Mayflower	212	(2)
Politics as sports	214	(2)
No winner	216	(2)
1 Chad, 2 Chad	218	(2)
Strange bedfellows	220	(2)
Now what?	222	(3)
AND ANOTHER THING
Depravity reigns	225	(2)
Trojan treat	227	(2)
Intolerable tolerance	229	(3)
Independence dies hard	232	(2)
What are they selling?	234	(2)
Call waiting	236	(3)
Diversity training	239	(2)
Mystifying massacre	241	(2)
Route 17	243	(3)
Playing for fun	246	(2)
Our turn to salute	248	(2)
Bomber drill	250	(2)
Sentenced to grow up	252	(3)
Name games	255	(2)
TV's greatest hits	257	(2)
Looking forward, looking back	259	(4)
Sex for extra credit	263	(2)
Name recognition	265	(2)
Test case	267	(2)
A prejudiced study	269	(2)
Motto is for the Birds	271	(3)
Driving in gadgetland	274	(2)
Hug therapy	276	(2)
A hairy dilemma	278	(2)
What `D' really means	280	(2)
Guard duty	282	(2)
Peeping George	284	(2)
Missing secrets	286	(2)
Full service	288	(2)
Sliding to the sewer	290	(2)
A teen's freedom	292	(2)
October surprises	294	(2)
Dressing for success	296	(2)
ACLU help us	298