07.05.2013 Columns Gustavson: I’m a licensed boater … and more Here’s some bad news for those of you hoping I would flunk my boating safety test: I passed. I — and all of my classmates, I am pleased to...
06.22.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: Boating safety course leaves plenty to be desired At the risk of receiving an “F” on my final exam, I am compelled to take this occasion to express my deep personal reservations about the U.S. Coast Guard...
05.25.2013 Columns Column: My own version of ‘Grumpy Old Men’ Yes, it’s true. Somehow I’ve become a Grumpy Old Man and my only excuse is the inexorable acceleration of time. This grumpiness might actually have started a few years...
05.11.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: Can’t convince me I had the worst job An outfit named CareerCast recently released a list of the “worst jobs” for 2013. To earn a spot on the list, a job had to feature “low pay, high...
04.28.2013 Columns Column: Wow, what a newsman we have My mother, borrowing some folk wisdom from the Disney film “Bambi,” routinely told me when I was a lad that if I couldn’t say anything nice, then I shouldn’t say...
04.13.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: More tears for Newtown massacre Yes, it’s true: I’m a crybaby. I cry at movies (“Shane,” “Cast Away,” etc.), I cried for two weeks straight as an 11-year-old at summer camp and I cried...
03.30.2013 Columns Column: One life ends, but another begins anew This is one of those columns that’s pretty much going to write itself, I think. Sometimes I struggle to find a worthy subject (and sometimes I don’t find one),...
02.14.2013 Columns Last chance to win our annual Oscars contest Yes, it’s true, ladies and gentlemen! You have arrived at our annual Academy Awards contest column, wherein readers of same are challenged to pick the winners of the 85th...