Grampa’s mad

Published 6:50 am Sunday, November 1, 2015

And another thing: Get off my lawn: Advice columnist John Rosemond’s bone to pick with parents this week is when moms and dads ask their kids where they’d like to sit in restaurants. Then the parents read the menus to their tots and ask them what they’d like to eat.

The Buzz sees an easy way to avoid this: Don’t take your kids to the Early-Bird Special.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1865, Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States, was born in Ohio. Surprisingly, Harding had a lot in common with John F. Kennedy:

• Like Kennedy, Harding was a womanizer. “It’s a good thing I’m not a woman,” he once said. “I would always be pregnant. I can’t say no.”
• Like Kennedy, Harding had secret health problems. In July 1923, Harding’s personal physician said POTUS was “feeling fit and in splendid physical trim.” Less than a month later, he dropped dead.
• At his inaugural speech in 1921, Harding said: “Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.” Just like Kennedy — without the “Ask not” poetry.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff