The current mess overseas brought to mind the old story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby. If you remember this story, Brer Rabbit also got himself into a mess by trying to fight the Tar Baby, which was ...

TAMPA — To re-do, or not to re-do, that is the question. I’m speaking of course of the Democratic primary in Florida, which was held Jan. 29, but, by edict of the Democratic National Committee, ...

“How duz yo’ sym’tums seem ter segashuate?” sez Brer Rabbit, sezee . . . en de Tar-Baby, she ain’t sayin’ nothin’. “How you come on, den? Is you deaf?” Brer Rabbit, sezee. “Kaze if you is, I kin ...

Brer Rabbit was a wily creature, but even he had trouble with the Tar Baby, a trap set for him by the dastardly Brer Fox. “Brer Rabbit & Friends,” the sunny, clever and tuneful production by the ...

Twenty years ago, I reminded readers of the (now politically incorrect) Walt Disney film, “Song of the South,” because it contained the fable of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, which goes like this: A ...