Dan Rodricks

In February 1992, chicken magnate Frank Perdue received a pie in the face from a protester in a chicken costume during a meeting of the University of Maryland Board of Regents in Baltimore.

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Despite the bruises he incurred during the rough patch of history that marked his administration, Jimmy Carter will be remembered as a man who served the nation honorably.

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And now, before I forget them all, more quotes and bon mots from my personal collection: “I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star.” Peter O'Toole, as Alan Swann, in my favorite film, “My Favorite Year,” a 1982 comedy about a 1950s TV show, with a poignant turn into the space between hero worship and enabling an alcoholic. “I haven't seen a man chew gum like that since Jean-Paul Belmondo in ‘Breathless ...

“We started to walk on stage and got a standing ovation before one note.”

"I think the Surgeon General's office is trying to do what was done for tobacco in 1965."

My sincere thanks go to the hundreds of readers who commented on the column or called to report a problem, or scolded me, or set me straight about some aspect of life here in the Greater Patapsco Drainage Basin.