“Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves, Britons never, never, shall be slaves …” I always thought the second half of that line was one of the best sentiments ever in any of the de facto national anthems, and I take great pride that half of my ancestry in English and I can trace my British …
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I have only one magazine subscription that I really care about. I subscribe to two newspapers — the New York Times and the Washington Post, both online — and if I lived one county closer to Atlanta, I would get home delivery of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. For the entire 20-plus years I lived in California, …
“Trump extremists of the Right, the MAGA Republicans, are promoting semi-fascism.” When President Biden made this statement in a Philadelphia speech last week, Republicans and their useful idiots in the media had a classic hissy fit and said they were extremely offended by being called semi-fascists. This might shock you, but I agree with them …
Twelve thousand tons a day. When I put our trash out for pickup on Sunday nights, I figure there might be 40 or 50 pounds in the trash bags to be picked up on Monday mornings. I live in a community of about a thousand homes, so if my trash is average, that means the …
When I was a lot younger, I used to enjoy watching football games. I was a sportswriter for nearly 17 years, and at different times I covered high school, college and professional football. I covered one Super Bowl (one of the worst ones) and two Rose Bowls (both pretty good games). I worked the NFL …
Mitch returned from a weekend in the country and was telling his friend about it. “We played a game called cornhole and I didn’t like it at all,” he said. “Why not?” his friend asked. “Couldn’t you get the beanbags in the hole?” “Beanbags?” I believe it was humorist Finley Peter Dunne, writing more than …
It’s amazing to me at my age to learn that wonderful feelings of happiness can come almost out of nowhere. I signed onto Facebook this morning and soon realized someone had posted a message on my page. The sender was one of my first cousins — I have four who grew up in Ohio — …
Every once in a while, something pops up on Facebook that piques my interest. “What is the greatest ONE LINE in a song ever?” I hate to be too boomer-centric, but I don’t know if there was ever a generation to which music was as big a deal as it has been to us. We …
So it has come to this. America’s worst president — heck, one of America’s worst humans — is demanding to be reinstalled as president 664 days after losing his bid for re-election by more than seven million votes. Donald Trump now seems to be saying it is all about Hunter Biden’s laptop. He started posting …
100,023. When I signed on to my website this morning, I did what I always do first. I checked to see how many hits I got yesterday and how many I have had in the two years I have been writing for Captive on the Carousel. No, the number above isn’t daily visitors. The most …
