In August 2017, the first year Donald Trump was in office, there was a total eclipse visible in much of the United States. As best as I can recall, folks were pretty excited about it, and the Trump-is-Jesus crowd didn’t say anything about deep spiritual meanings like the end of the world or the rapture. …
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I have written a couple of times recently about millennials talking about things boomers still do that have lost their coolness, if they ever had any. A couple of examples: Boomers still love to go to the mall, while the younger, hipper among us shop online. Boomers still love to go to restaurants, while those …
Have we really devolved so far intellectually in the last seven years? In August 2017, Americans in a large part of the country enjoyed a total eclipse of the sun. My wife and I drove to Greenville, S.C., where we viewed the eclipse in Furman University’s football stadium. It was a truly memorable occasion that …
Fake news? Maybe, but it isn’t as one-sided as folks on the right would like to think, and there seems to be a lot more than just the news that’s phony. Nobody seems to use it for more advantage than the man who made the term famous. Donald Trump started it all in 2016 with …
If there’s one sport that seems to ask the most of its participants in terms of honor, at least at the professional level, it’s golf. It’s a sport where it would be very easy to cheat by moving your ball even an inch or so — improving your lie — and turning a terrible shot …
Today is Easter, the holiest day of the Christian religion. It honors the day Christ returned from the dead after dying on the cross to redeem humanity for its sins. This year it honors the Second Coming of Christ, also known as … Are you really going to go there? Well, yeah. This past Monday, …
TRUMP MAKING THIS YEAR A DIFFERENT SORT OF EASTER Read More »
I wrote just the other day about Nick Fuentes wanting to execute non-Christians and Charlie Kirk putting the lives of frozen embryos over those of existing children. Now Steve Bannon is saying that people who don’t stand up for Donald Trump should go to prison. Anyone doubting that the stakes are much higher than normal …
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If you love baseball, I don’t know if there is a more wonderful day of the year than Opening Day. It’s the end of winter, the beginning of spring with summer on the way. I have been a baseball fan for nearly 70 years and I realized when I thought about it today that I …
We have a problem with lunatics who keep spewing filth on so-called news sites on the Internet. No, not Donald Trump. He’s a step or two up from these cranks, although he certainly does revel in their support for him. In the last two days alone, two of the better-known right-wing incels have suggested that …
In April 1983, I was sitting in the kitchen of my townhouse in Gastonia, N.C., drinking vodka with legendary baseball writer Roger Kahn. He was doing most of the drinking and I was interviewing him. I remembering asking him about sports columnist Dick Young, the man who essentially drove Tom Seaver out of New York. …
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