I have written before about how I ceased being a sports fan when I became a sportswriter. I think I’ve even mentioned how the one team in one sport that I never stopped caring about was University of Virginia basketball. I have lived and died with them — mostly died — since the mid 1960s. …
Fifteen years ago, back in my early days on Facebook, I used to do lists like this all the time. Some I wrote and asked others to try, some were written by others asking me to try. When I first saw this one today in the Memories section of Facebook and saw that it was …
“The really dangerous American fascist… is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. “His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never …
In 2015, before he came down the golden escalator and offered himself as a savior, Donald Trump invited evangelicals to meet with him in his office. Most of them were second-generation types like Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. Trump told them he had had a conversion experience and was dedicating his life to Jesus. …
I was in downtown Atlanta today and saw a billboard that threw me for a loop. I was sitting at a traffic light and an advertisement for a channel called Peachtree TV was bragging that on Friday night there would be an Atlanta Hawks basketball game on FREE TV. Imagine that. You can watch an …
At least once or twice a week, I see a clickbait article on Facebook trying to tell me all the things that are disappearing from our lives because millennials no longer buy or use them. There’s a certain “OK Boomer” quality to these articles, implying somehow that millennials have achieved a higher level of consciousness, …
“By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the moon Nokomis …”— H.W. LONGFELLOW, 1855 It has been more than 60 years since I first read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha,” and it is the flawed memory of an old man that had me believing all these years that the quote at the top of this page …
I really didn’t have any intention of writing about Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech today. I fully expected that it would be an OK speech, but it would be mild enough and with enough stumbles and gaffes that nobody would be all that excited about it. After all, under the heading of worthless …
This won’t be a particularly long post. Just some food for thought and one very basic question. When I was a kid in school and learning about civics, one thing I remember was that our justice system was intended to be slanted toward the rights of the accused. We learned that it was better to …
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What happens when one side plays by the rules and the other doesn’t? What happens when the people on one side of an issue believe they are more worthy than the other, or that they are good and the other side is evil? What happens then? You have Donald Trump’s America. There appear to be …
