My earliest memory of Christmas is almost certainly 1953. It’s very strange thinking back 69 years and remembering anything. In fact, other than that Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, I only have two or three very vague memories from the first five years of my life. I remember the last time I saw my father, …
I’m not sure I ever traveled as much in a four-month period as I did i the period that included Christmas 1989. It was the last of four seasons in which I had a traveling college basketball beat, and I followed Nevada-Reno all around the Big Sky Conference and non-conference road trips. That took me …
I’ve got to be honest. When you’re on the far side of 70, , there are so many things that seem foolish or silly. The outrage over being “woke,” for example. As I understand it, being “woke” ties in with such conservative bugaboos as “critical race theory” and “pronouns.” The way I was educated as …
Ever since Donald Trump’s fake baseball card connection came out last week, I’ve been wondering something. What kind of 76-year-old man creates trading cards of himself in all sorts of heroic poses unlike anything he ever actually did? He was certainly never a superhero who could shoot lasers from his eyes. He was never an …
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It’s rare indeed that voters have such a stark choice between good and bad as we did in the 2020 presidential election. A story in today’s Washington Post adds to that legend by bringing in a third president who would fall somewhere in between 2020’s two choices. It was 50 years ago today that a …
A few years back, I was reading on the BBC website and I saw something that reallr surprised me. It was a survey of the greatest Christmas songs ever, and at the top of the list was a song I had never heard. In modern Britain, “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues and Kirsty …
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After yesterday’s Major Announcement, it’s nearly impossible to imagine Donald Trump as a serious candidate for president in 2024. Trump’s announcement is that he’s going to sell digital, aka virtual trading cards to his fans for $99 each. Especially with the implosion of the Bitcoin market, this might just be Trump’s ultimate test of P.T. …
Is there anything that has generated as many awful movies as Christmas? Even without Hallmark, Lifetime and Tim Allen, there are so many movies that are completely unwatchable if you have a three-digit IQ. Thank God for Billy Bob Thornton, even if he only hit on two of three. He scored big in two great …
Today is a 10th anniversary, but I don’t think I can write about Sandy Hook without a horrible increase in anxiety and/or blood pressure. So I’ll put and try something a little lighter. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” Sorry, Bill, but …
Klan Mom strikes again. Just when those of us in Georgia were taking a victory lap for sparing the Senate from Herschel Walker, we were reminded that we did after all inflict Marjorie Taylor Greene — aka Klan Mom — on the House of Representatives. True, Greene only represents one of 14 Georgia districts, one …
