It would be easy to blame the lunatics of the so-called “Freedom Caucus” for what is happening in Washington. The 45 members of the caucus have said they will only accept an increase in the debt limit if Democrats agree to the following concessions: Congress must agree to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in …
Back when I was first on Facebook, I sort of got into doing these list-type posts. This one, called “Firsts,” was from March 11, 2009, when I still had a year and a half left of my life in California. 1. First Prom date?Jeanne Crisinger, to my own senior prom in 1967. I could be …
I live in a city that has gotten less snow the last five winters than Huntington Beach, California. All right, maybe it technically wasn’t snow. The National Weather Service said technically what accumulated on the beach was graupel, a word I had never heard until today. It’s from a Germanic word meaning “pearl barley” and …
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait…. I hate him passionately,” If you read that text message sent by a media figure and start whining about those damn liberals, guess what? The author wasn’t Rachel Maddow or anyone else on liberal MSNBC. It wasn’t anyone …
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I was working my way through Ken Burns’ wonderful 1994 film “Baseball” yet another time when I came across something I had forgotten. It was fairly late in Part One, which covered the game from 1840 to the end of the 19th century, and Bob Costas was talking about his love of the game. He …
I have written about Wordle before. It’s one of the main reasons I subscribe to the New York Times online and it is one of the first times I have gotten caught up in what appears to be one of the hot online fads. Uh, Mike … You’re showing your age with the word “fad.” …
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“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all …” I wish I could agree with the words of old Al Tennyson, that brilliant 19th century poet. Maybe he’s right in terms of loving a person, but that isn’t the only kind of love. There are other kinds and the …
If there is oe thing truly disgusting about the computer age — and there are actually numerous things — it’s how easy it has made trying to cheat people. When I opened the text message directory on my mobile phone today, I saw a message telling me my Amazon account had been locked because of …
“The good die first. And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket.” I was 17 the first time I remember someone I would call family or friend died. There were others who had passed away before that, but they weren’t people I knew. Both of my paternal grandparents died before …
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The two classiest coaches I ever met coached against each other in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Now they’re both gone. I’ve written before about Dean Smith of North Carolina, the only coach I ever knew who apologized to me. The died eight years ago at the age of 83, suffering from advanced dementia. Now Terry …
