The kind of tie Donovan McNabb understands

The whole of society can easily be broken down into two groups:

Those who will go around wearing a skinny scarf with a sports jacket or suit...and those who will not.

The list of those who will would include Boz Scaggs and that Adam Levine guy from Maroon 5 .


The list of those who don't would include me, and, I'm guessing, John Madden and Brian Williams. Dr. Phil strikes me as the kind of guy who would go for that look, if he felt daring enough.


Was having lunch with Peggy, Laura and the twins when in walked a guy so dripping with coolness that he sported this look along with an ill-fitting suit, which I am assured is all the rage. He swaggered through the (coffee) beanery with a cockiness atypical for such a young man. All Hail the King of Paneraland!



I'd like to report just what he chose for his midday meal, but I lost interest in his haberdashery when Mason and Preslee started talking to me. "Mark Sandwich!," hollered Preslee, skillfully conflating my name and her luncheon order. Mason was intently playing with her drawing toy, reveling in taking off her teeny shoes, and taking teeny bites of a grilled cheese sandwich.


Oh! the important thing here is to wear no tie! And that's what John Roberts on the CNN early morning news has been doing for the last several days. I don't know that I want to take my news from a man on tv without a tie. Even in the days when our local news had a guy do the weather, sponsored by a chain of gas stations, he wore the complete gas station dress outfit - including a leather bow tie.

I haven't been wearing a tie to work very often this year, but then again I'm not on TV in millions of homes. I just keep wondering if Roberts slopped oatmeal down his front day after day.