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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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