MISSOURIANA

Today's modern traveler is one who has experienced at least once the indescribable nightmare of spending a couple of days in an airport terminal.

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Pork prices have dropped to such low levels that even those who are living high on the hog are barely getting by.

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Balloonists are still trying to circle the globe, most of them failing because they run out of hot air. Where are our politicians when they could be of some use?

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No wonder winter is called bleak. After Christmas and New Year's, about all we can look forward to if the Missouri General Assembly.

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An efficient corporate sales executive is anyone who has the ability to schedule telephone sales calls just as you're starting dinner.

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Federal workers have discovered that a computer glitch has understated Social Security reserves for years. Nothing like modern technology to restore our lack of faith in Washington.

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Modern definition: Slick roads are now known as Clinton Highways.

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One of the advantages of the impeachment trial is that political junkies can hear from senators they never knew anything about.

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If the negotiators who settled the St. Louis school desegregation case were still in school, they would have been expelled a long time ago for tardiness.

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Washington: Where crime is down depending on your definition of an impeachable offense.