Mitchell's Ramblings

Bill Russell is now in his early seventies. One of his claims to fame is that during his basketball career, his teams won two NCAA champion...

During World War II, the population of the United States was around 150 million and 13.5 Americans served in the military: one out of every ...

When I visited Moscow in the Spring of 1986, with a group of American law students, we retreated to an evening at “The Palace of Friendship,...

Wilt Chamberlain lived into his sixties and saw a great many changes in his life. One of them was certainly the changing role of black peopl...

Two things are funny: exaggeration and reversal. For instance, if I ask you for $1.25, is that funny? No. One time, Mark Twain wrote a le...

Is there anything funnier than a story that you think is going to be raunchy, but turns out clean? Here’s one I heard from my dear old mom ...

I attended law school at Notre Dame Law School, located in an area with an overwhelming Polish population. The story goes that a fellow in S...