Overrated Archive
Ned Bitters This week’s inductees into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” are … surprise birthday parties. My niece might be the most impressive person I know. She can sing, dance and write. She excelled from elementary school through grad school. She was national youth chair of a
Ned Bitters This week’s inductees into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” are … NHL playoff beards. We’re not even a week into the NHL playoffs, but players already are sprouting the early stubble of playoff beards. This means we’ll soon start listening to wistful announcers wax stupid
Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … homemade beer and wine. If you want to grill a hamburger at home, do you buy a cow, tend to it, slaughter it and grind your own hamburger meat, or do you run over
Ned Bitters This week’s inductees into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” are … municipal sports bets. Last week in a Pittsburgh newspaper there was a story about (and an accompanying stupid picture of) some Pittsburgh councilwoman wearing green and eating cheese. This was the main picture on
Ned Bitters A couple of years ago I wrote about how any allegations of my maturity were unfounded. Consider this Part II of that installment. Whatever maturity I might have is vastly overrated. Anyone who knows me well suffers no delusions about my maturity, but I can
