I don’t believe I have ever watched “Inside the Actors Studio,” although I suppose there is a chance I came across excerpts from it on YouTube. At any rate, every episode of the show ended with a 10-question quiz that was designed to provide insight into the person being interviewed. I took the quiz in …
Scott Adams will be 66 years old this June. He is reportedly worth around $50 million, nearly all of which came from his popular comic strip “Dilbert.” Do you think it’s possible he just got tired of working and that’s why he sabotaged himself with racist comments that have led many of the papers that …
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas. Lay down with Trump and DeSantis, Greene and Gaetz, and you get up screaming, kicking and drooling. Republicans , particularly the ones who call themselves moral, seem to get crazier every day, and the issue that seems to bring on the drooling faster than anything else is …
I’ve been divorced, and it’s not a pleasant experience. That said, there’s a huge difference between Michael and Leslie’s divorce in 1982 and the red state-blue state divorce Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to want America to undergo. The congresswoman that Jimmy Kimmel calls Klan Mom says there are irreconcilable differences between liberals and conservatives that …
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If you listen to Oldies stations, particularly ones playing songs from the 1960s, you’ll hear the same songs over and over again. It’s not as bad as it was back then, when AM stations had rigid playlists. I remember in the first part of 1965, for about a month when my morning alarm went off, …
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One of my guilty pleasures in the mid 1980s was a movie called “St. Elmo’s Fire,” a Brat Pack effort about seven friends fresh out of college trying to get started on their road to success. Andrew McCarthy plays a young journalist who dreams of someday writing about The Meaning of Life. He has a …
When my wife Nicole and I moved to Georgia in the autumn of 2010, there was one sight I wanted to see. Our home just north of Griffin is just 57 miles from Moreland, a town of just 382 people. The one resident I knew of had moved away more than 40 years earlier and …
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Jimmy Carter was the first winning presidential candidate ever to get my vote. I was 26 in 1976, but I had only voted in one presidential election before that. I couldn’t vote in 1968 even though I was 18, but the voting age wasn’t lowered from 21 until a year after that election. So my …
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“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose …” I can’t help wondering what the men who founded our country would think of their handiwork nearly two and a half centuries later. What were the freedoms that mattered the most to these men of the late 18th century and how do they compare to …
Are you old enough to remember 1965? Some people have called it the year everything changed. Historian James T. Patterson wrote a wonderful book called “The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America” in which he called ’65 the beginning of the era we know as the Sixties really began. It was the summer of …
