Most of my memories of Thanksgiving tend toward the generic. I remember last year in Guatemala and I remember 1974 in Columbus, Ohio. More generically pleasant memories are the dozen or so years when Nicole, Pauline, Virgile and I went to the Thanksgiving buffet at the wonderful Twin Palms restaurant in Pasadena, California. Last year …
“Hubris is the characteristic of excessive confidence or arrogance, which leads a person to believe that he or she may do no wrong. The overwhelming pride caused by hubris is often considered a flaw in character.” Americans aren’t the only people who think we’re the crown of creation, who somehow think we don’t have to live by the …
It’s beginning to look a lot like … like what? This Thursday will be Thanksgiving, but we’re being asked not to hold traditional big family celebrations because of the coronavirus. Otherwise the holiday song will change from “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” to “Grandpa Got Wiped out by a Virus.” Actually, the day …
It’s a very strange feeling when you’re waiting for someone important in your life to die. On the one hand, it’s very sad to realize that someone you have loved your entire life will no longer be around.. On the other hand, when you realize that in some ways, they are already gone … Death …
“After (Monica Palmer) filed her affidavit asking to rescind her vote, (Jonathan) Kinloch accused her and (William) Hartmann of bowing to pressure from the Republican Party and the White House, which has waged a legal campaign seeking to overturn the results of the election (in Michigan).“ Think about this for a minute. That quote is …
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” To clarify, that’s mad as in insane, not mad as in angry. Otherwise there would be a great deal more destruction going on. This quote is often attributed to Euripides, but it actually dates back only three or four hundred years, appearing in Longfellow’s “Masque …
This isn’t going to be about golf, but something that happened yesterday might help make the point I want to pursue. On the 12th hole at Augusta National Sunday, Tiger Woods had the worst hole of his long career. The hole is a par three, and Woods put three different shots into the water and …
“Freedom’s just another word for … an excuse to behave badly.” When I saw the accompanying picture from Saturday’s Million Moron March, which I swear must have attracted at least 75 percent of the nation’s village idiots, I really wanted to laugh. I couldn’t, though. Too many flags in one place, conflicting meanings. I’m sort …
Once was a time I really enjoyed college football. I’ve always liked Ohio State and Virginia, and at least in 1963, I got tremendous enjoyment out of watching Roger Staubach lead Navy to the Cotton Bowl. Navy was 9-2 that season, and oddly enough, both of its losses came in the same stadium, to SMU …
I wonder if anyone saw the irony in this. Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene was recently elected to Congress. It was sort of a big deal, since Donald Trump had endorsed her and she was an outspoken member of QAnon. This week she was in Washington for freshman orientation and she complained to her followers …
