Adair: ‘Froggy’ memories of Christmas past

One set of my Christmas memories comes from the early-to-mid 1950s – ancient history to most folks but very real to me. I would have been seven, eight, or nine years old, somewhere in there. Christmas night was when a passel of Mama’s kinfolks descended on our house.

ADAIR: Random thoughts on election issues

As an election (hopefully) comes to a satisfactory and stabilized conclusion next week, I’m herewith one guy’s random thoughts: • Polls are as valid as their methodology, and I am having some doubts. One of the main principles of polling is being based on random sampling.