Mitchell's Ramblings

The story goes that there was a meeting of the heads of state of Russia, Germany, and Poland. A genie pops up and offers them each one wish...

I recently heard a joke about a mix-up in a German maternity ward in which the doctors could not identify which newborn was German, which wa...

More than 30 years ago, several members of the fourth estate took Ronald Reagan to task for having told a joke about an Italian, a Pole and ...

Oliver Otis Howard was a Civil war General for the Union. Before the war, he had become such a fervent Christian that he had considered res...

Abe Vigoda has been a working actor for more than half a century now. His most recent appearance was alongside Betty White in that famous S...

It sometimes boggles my mind that a hundred years ago, almost the entire world was ruled by grandsons of Queen Victoria. Wilhelm II, the Em...

This IS a shaggy dog story. You have been warned. The university of Notre Dame has one of the countries most famous football programs, part...