I don’t know if there is anything in American life that coincides with the cycle of life as perfectly as baseball. It begins in February, in the depths of winter. Or at least the depths of what winter used to be. Players and wannabe players pack their suitcases, kiss the wife and kids goodbye, jump …
IT’S TIME FOR THE WONDROUS PART OF THE YEAR TO COME Read More »
Let’s start by saying John F. Kennedy was wrong. The 35th president once said that no political assassination had ever changed history. Of course it’s ironic that JFK himself was assassinated in 1963, and we can certainly argue that the assassination of his brother Bobby in 1968 had a huge effect on history. President Kennedy …
IMAGINE AN AMERICA IN WHICH ABE LINCOLN HAD LIVED Read More »
It takes someone with absolutely no shame or remorse to do what Donald Trump does. He builds lies on lies, and even goes back on things he admitted to before. During the 2016 campaign, when the “grab them by the pussy” thing came out, Trump tried to dismiss it by saying it was just locker-room …
HAS THERE EVER BEEN A BETTER LIAR THAN BIG BAD DON? Read More »
There’s on old somewhat sick joke about tornados and their effect on poor southern and midwestern communities. Q. What do an Alabama divorce and a tornado have in common?A. Somebody’s going to lose a trailer. When we moved from California to Georgia late in 2010, I noticed that two miles or so to the west …
Everyone has their own favorite movies, and quite often they tend to consider those movies the best ones ever made. I’ve done my own lists before, but I had a different idea for this post. I looked through my DVDs and tried to find films that I love that not all that many people knew …
If you listen to all the fuss about what right-wing pundits are saying, you would think that 50 to 100 million people must be watching them, cleaning their guns and getting ready to clear the way for Donald Trump to return to the White House. In fact, if you have a sense of history, you …
Rodney Dangerfield once told a joke about borrowing money from a loan shark. He said he borrowed a hundred dollars, paid back $20 a week for three years and still owed $250. Sounds like trying to repay a student loan. My son Virgile, who never had student loans to repay, told me a few years …
ONE POSSIBLE WAY TO AMELIORATE STUDENT LOAN DEBT Read More »
God, but when did I start becoming a fan again? From 1978-96 I was a sportswriter for daily newspapers. I covered a lot of different things, but my two biggest areas of expertise were college basketball and professional football. I actually had four years of traveling beats — in Missouri and Nevada — covering basketball, …
THIS YEAR’S NCAA WAS AGONIZING FOR WAHOO FANS LIKE ME Read More »
The graphic accompanying this piece states some awful facts about modern-day America. Of course, if you’re reading this piece, the odds are you aren’t part of the problem and in fact might find the information as horrifying as I do. Americans simply don’t read anymore. Many of them can’t read. I have quoted information from …
What significance does religion have in our lives these days? We talk a very good game, and many of us believe very strongly that we know the right way to get to heaven. We not only know the way, we also know our friends and acquaintances are on the wrong track and we’re quick to …
