This was originally written about 10 years ago, and Dear Lord, things have gotten worse since. (A few updates are in italics) I can’t believe I used to take politics seriously. Now I don’t know if there’s anyone left in Washington I can take seriously at all except for my younger brother, and he’s too …
Jimmy Carter was the first presidential candidate to get my vote who actually won the election. I have voted in 14 presidential elections and the candidates I supported won six times. I suppose that’s not too bad when you realize my candidates lost four of my first five elections. Trumpanzees and other right wingers love …
Twenty-five random facts about myself: 1. If one thing truly surprises me when I look back at the first 75 years of my life, it’s that probably the thing I did better than anything else was being a dad. I never knew my birth father and when my mother remarried and gave me a dad, …
Ten years ago October, I got the worst news of my life. My lovely wife Nicole, who was just 64 at the time, was going through serious cognition problems that had me worried about what some folks call “Oldtimers Disease.” Mike, that’s not what it’s called. you know it’s …” I know the real name. …
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“Roger: I hope 1944 turns out well. They pass so quickly. Where do they all go?“Biff Baxter: So quickly. Then we get old. And we never knew what any of it was about.”— WOODY ALLEN, Radio Days Everybody’s got their memories, and as they grow older, memories fill more and more of the space in …
I wrote this nine years ago and it would still work, although it would take longer. Let’s get rid of the national debt. Whatever it is — $18 trillion, $19 trillion — let’s just make up our mind right now that we’re going to get rid of it. My guess is we could do it …
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When I was covering college basketball in the late 1980s, one of the coaches on Te University of Nevada staff was telling me about the greatest story that would never be told. The story was about basketball and football recruiting and how major universities were using under-the-table donations from rich supporters to purchase athletes to …
I remember back in the 1970s, there were some people who thought Henry Kissinger would be a wonderful president of the United States. Unfortunately for them, Hank was never eligible to be president and in fact had to be removed from the line of succession because of one simple fact. No, not because he was …
The last thing I want to do is complain about being old, but if there is one thing I am learning, it’s that life seems to take away as much as it gives anymore. In the process, it almost seems as if the best days are when nothing big happs. Just in the last few …
It’s impossible to run a country successfully when one political party looks for reasonable solutions and common ground and the other wants it their way even with the tiniest majorities. We need to get past this or America as we know it is over. The most recent school shooting was at a fundamentalist Christian school, …
