Mitchell's Ramblings

There was a confederate general, John Bell Hood, who was one of the Confederacy’s bravest, though by no means one of its most talented, gen...

Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler was a German army officer from a titled Prussian family who succeeded in gaining a position as an aide to camp ...

Jack Soo was the professional name of the child of a Japanese immigrant family named Suzuki (Suzuki happens to be the Japanese name for Smi...

When I was in law school, an elderly professor told a story about a Texas Judge from long ago who was chided about the fact that in Texas t...

For the last 40-some years, I’ve been enjoying America’s most spectacular bit of cheesecake: the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which...

I happened to look up the 11 American cities with the highest per capita murder rates last year, as well as their ethnic demographics and I...

Some of my readers might recall that a man who was once quite literally “the boy next door,” Rod Wittich, joined the Columbus Police Force ...