Opinion

Al Batt: I love the smell of wet squirrels in the morning

I couldn’t see a sun in the sky. It had either overslept or clouds covered it.

Opinion

Al Batt: I’ve been to about half of everywhere, man

The water hit like thousands of tiny bricks being flung at me with incredible accuracy. I was being ...

News

Al Batt: What do you want, sleepyhead, worms or waffles today?

We yawn when we’re tired, bored, hungry or stressed. Theories say yawning wakes the brain, cools the brain ...

Opinion

Al Batt: Air conditioning was something we had in winter

Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt The AC guy was out to make sure our air was ...

Opinion

Al Batt: Minn. man, Iowa man and Florida man walk into a column

Did you hear about the Iowa man who moved to Minnesota? Some of his siblings thought he was ...

Opinion

Al Batt: There are eight million stories in the naked city

Life is changed faster than underwear.

Opinion

Al Batt: Here be dragons, midges, chipped windshields and shitepokes, oh my

Someone should write a song about it.

Opinion

Al Batt: Summa cum laude grad would have worn a baseball glove

Muhammad Ali said, “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out ...

Opinion

Al Batt: Johnny Cash sang it, so you know it must be true

I knew the day would be special.

Columnists

Al Batt: Hickory Dickory Doc, impetigo ran up the block (head)

We were old enough to be in school, but not much older than that. One of us contracted ...

Opinion

Al Batt: I love cashiers and those little checkout dividers

My right sock was on its last leg.

Opinion

Al Batt: My horoscope says I shouldn’t read it, so I don’t

I don’t read my horoscope. I read my wife’s horoscope so I know what to be prepared for.

Opinion

Al Batt: Showing up and shining in the Show Me State

I didn’t go to St. Joseph, Missouri, because Missouri loves company.

Columnists

Al Batt: The shoulder devil made him free the halluces

My neighbor Crandall bought a pair of nice shoes from one of those man cave stores. He had ...

Opinion

Al Batt: All together now, we all yodel for yummy ice cream

It was too windy to pick rocks.

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