Barrett Tillman's Rant Page

  Northeastern Oregon c. 1905-1910. First day of class in the one-room school, a male teacher appeared.  Most unusual.  He wore a three-pi...

  Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is ...

  Q: When does a rock and roll drummer wear a suit and tie? A: When the judge says, “The defendant will rise.”   I grew up playing drums.  I...

Amid the current controversy attending immigration, I want to tell you about a cherished friend, a first-generation American whose family em...