Our new schedule essentially begins today, with the first of the twice-a-week anecdotal columns. Friday will be another full-length piece and Saturday our first podcast in 18 months. Enjoy. Short takes from a journey through a disorganized mind: NO, IT’S NO NO-NO: Young fans are excited that they got to see a no-hitter pitched by …
When it comes to living day to day lives, most folks play by the rules. They lead lives of ethics and honesty, and if they have one true flaw, it’s believing that other people who aren’t honest really are deep down. Call it gullibility or naivete, but they hurt themselves more than anyone else. And …
It’s funny how amazing thoughts sneak up on you sometimes. I started reading a baseball book called “The Sputnik Season: 1957,” and the very first paragraph just blew me away. “The late Lawrence Ritter, author of ‘The Glory of Their Times,’ was once asked what was the golden age of baseball. He responded with great …
A guy walked into a bar, sat down and angrily ordered a drink. After downing it, he turned to a guy at the end of the bar and said, “I hate politicians. Politicians are all assholes.” The guy at the end of the bar frowned. “I resent that.” “Why? Are you a politician?” “No, I’m …
If we have learned one thing about Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race, it’s that no one will ever confuse him with a wizard. When he was asked about his opinion of legal abortion, he was doing just fine until he remembered he was supposed to be a Republican. He started by saying …
ABORTION ISSUE MAKES IT TOUGH TO BE A REPUBLICAN Read More »
Some issues are never settled. Of course, the biggest and most destructive one isn’t the one that usually comes to mind first. For all the controversy over abortion, it affects a lot fewer people than the real issue that’s never settled. What’s that? It’s obvious. The one issue that will never be settled is lower …
IT REALLY ALL BOILS DOWN TO ONLY ONE ISSUE — TAXATION Read More »
“There’s a place for us, somewhere a place for us. Peace and quiet and open air wait for us somewhere.” I was 11 when the first “West Side Story” movie came out, and the poignant song “Somewhere”might have been the first song that ever broke my heart. Tony and Maria are coming to realize there …
PEACE & QUIET HARD TO FIND IN OUR POLITICAL LIFE Read More »
“I have heard the hon. Gentleman speak on this and every other occasion, and as the years roll by I recognise that language such as he uses is one of the main reasons for our political difficulties in the Colonial Empire. I recently had the opportunity of talking to some Burmese gentlemen, and one of …
Which two National Football League teams are playing today at Nissan Stadium? How about TIAA Bank Field? Which baseball playoff game is being played at Citizens Bank Park? Remember when stadiums used to have names that were evocative of the cities they inhabited or the teams that played there? Those were the days, my friends. …
What frightens Republicans more than anything else in the world? Intelligent women? Minorities? Taxation? All those things are nightmares to Trumpanzees and other MAGAnauts, , but there is one thing worse than all that. They hate it when Democrats fight back. Enter Dark Brandon. Republicans started the Brandon stuff last year, A NASCAR driver was …
