“If you don’t back the Electoral College challenges, I will do a number on you …” I don’t particularly like Kelly Loeffler, but something happened to her last week that shouldn’t happen to anyone. It was the night before her runoff election with Raphael Warnock for one of the two Georgia Senate seats, and President …
When we moved from Ohio to Virginia in 1963, one of our new neighbors was a congressman from Ohio. Delbert Latta represented his northwest Ohio from 1959-89, and one of the things followers of politics might remember him for was the 1981 Gramm-Latta Omnibus Reconciliation Bill, which cleared the way for much of President Reagan’s …
One thing about getting older that’s not much fun is thinking about all the things that aren’t around anymore. One of the saddest sights I ever saw came when I was driving on U.S. 30, the Lincoln Highway, west of Crestline, Ohio, in the late ’60s. While passing a small forest on the south side …
The first contact I had with Tommy Lasorda was in 1983 in Philadelphia. I don’t remember why I was there, what I was expecting to write about, but it was only the second time I had been in a major league press box. It was an uneventful game in an uneventful season, but it contained …
“I never heard of a president like you …” In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, an embattled farmer wrote to President Roosevelt: “Dear Mr. President: This is just to tell you that everything is all right now. The man you sent found our house all right, and we went down to the …
“I’m too old for this shit.” When I think of all the pop culture references I have made over the years, the thought that I would ever quote the “Lethal Weapon” movies would be almost ludicrous. It not just Shane Black, the rootin’-tootin’est screenwriter ever.One of my favorite throwaway quotes come from another of his …
“Hello, Georgia. By the way — there’s no way we lost Georgia. There’s no way. That was a rigged election.” Just yesterday evening, Donald Trump visited Georgia, ostensibly to support Republican candidates for the two U.S. Senate seats still up for grabs. I say ostensibly because these days, when Trump goes anywhere, it’s always about …
“Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone …” There are so many things we used to take for granted. When my wife and I lived in California, we had a multiplex movie theatre exactly one mile from us. We could literally decide to go to the movies …
“But something is happening here and you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?” If there’s one thing that is starting to seem very strange to me, it’s the idea of generations. Was it the statement that those born between 1946 and 1964 were Baby Boomers? Or that those who grew up during …
Consider yourself lucky you aren’t spending this weekend in Georgia. Our mailboxes are full of political mailings, mostly from Republicans. Our phones ring a dozen times a dat with robocalls. Our televisions have ad after ad, with one party’s ad following the other ad nauseam. I don’t think Georgia has had this much time in …
