"I write about whatever interests me. Some columns say things I can't say while writing or editing those buttoned-down, unsigned editorials that speak for The Enquirer; others are purely for the fun of writing."

D E C E M B E R   1 9 9 9
• A few good Christmas traditions Dec. 19
• Now that was a blue Christmas Dec. 12
• Kids' books for grownups Dec. 5

N O V E M B E R   1 9 9 9
• The mayor says adios Nov. 28
• Lump of coal for the court Nov. 21
• Roads scholar Nov. 14
• How to make everyone vote Nov. 7

O C T O B E R   1 9 9 9
• A stink in Butler County Oct. 31
• Answerman knows it all Oct. 24
• Mark Twain Cincinnati Oct. 17
• If that's art, I'm Picasso Oct. 10
• Friends put faith in Bush Oct. 3

S E P T E M B E R   1 9 9 9
• Can't get to Denver from here Sept. 26
• Waco ashes still smolder Sept. 12
• Inside the house that Mike built Sept. 5

A U G U S T   1 9 9 9
• Boy, oh, boy, oh, Boy Scouts Aug. 29
• Be prepared for gay Scouts Aug. 22
• Where were you in '72? Aug. 15
• If you can't take the heat, leave town Aug. 8

J U L Y   1 9 9 9
• Time out ... Ahhhhh ... Time in July 18
• McCarthy would love the 1990s July 11

J U N E   1 9 9 9
• City quotas are stewpid June 27
• Fathers and kids June 20
• The wrong 'outcomes' June 13
• Planet of the Pundits June 6

M A Y   1 9 9 9
• Pick your battlefield May 30
• What's the big idea? May 23
• Jabba the Flynt May 16
• Best gift for mothers May 9
• What goes down at the Parktown? May 2

A P R I L   1 9 9 9
• A letter to Screwtape Apr. 25
• Back to the trenches of mangled care Apr. 18
• Beaten by a nightclub Apr. 11
• Nightclub versus nightstick Apr. 4

M A R C H   1 9 9 9
• A new kind of March madness Mar. 28
• Treasures in our attic Mar. 14
• Now that's really sick Mar. 7

F E B R U A R Y   1 9 9 9
• 'I'd never be a patient' Feb. 28
• Nurses hurt but HMOs feel no pain Feb. 21
• Thou shalt not pray Feb. 14
• The things we all take granted Feb. 7

J A N U A R Y   1 9 9 9
• TV causes blindness Jan. 31
• The land of the brazen Jan. 24
• Taft Era: 'All things are possible' Jan. 17
• How cold can it get? Jan. 10

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