About 8-10 years ago, when I was spending a lot of money collecting autographed baseballs, I would often jump at the chance to buy offbeat ones. Ones that weren’t baseball people. I bought one signed by Jane Fonda, as well as balls signed by Richard Petty, Grace Slick, Samuel L. Jackson and John Elway. I …
I saw a post of Facebook the other day that made me laugh. Not humorous-type laugh, but that’s-so-goofy laugh. “Name a ’60s group that younger people wouldn’t have heard of.” To start the discussion, the poster named an obscure, nearly unknown group called … Creedence Clearwater Revival. Say what? What’s next? The Beach Boys? The …
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If there’s one lesson Republicans have tken from Donald Trump that hasn’t served them particularly well, it’s refusing to apologize for mistakes. If you can’t say you were wrong, you have only two choices. You can say you weren’t wrong … … or you can say you never did it. People used to be unfairly …
When I was in my teens, I had no use for country music. I grew up in Ohio and Northern Virginia, and to me country music was slop jars, corncobs and hillbillies. It was completely rural and I was strictly suburban. As I grew up, I got to where I could enjoy so-called country rock, …
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. People familiar with the thought tend to remember that as the actual quote, but of course it isn’t. What Ralph Waldo Emerson actually said two centuries ago is more complex. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. There …
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I didn’t realize it until it jumped up and bit me, but COVID-19 appears to have had one positive effect on life, at least here in north central Georgia. We appear to have stepped back from so many things being open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As I’ve written before, I grew …
When did we get so damned mean? And so stupid? Forgive my partisanship here, but I’m not sure the Republican Party could continue to exist without meanness and stupidity. It always seems to show up at the worst times, whether it was Donald Trump throwing paper towels to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico or Ron …
I saw a meme this morning suggesting that if someone was annoyed at all the unwanted phone calls they were getting, the solution was to get rid of their landline. Just another snark at people supposedly too old or unhip to have a cellphone. It isn’t even true anymore. Once was the time when one …
One thing you will rarely hear an old person say: “Things are so much nicer now than they were when I was young.” If you look at the picture above, you’ll see a place that was the closest thing to heaven for kids growing up in Brooklyn in the first half of the last century. …
Everybody makes lists of what they consider the greatest movies. Or the worst movies. Or their favorite movies. I want to do something a little different. I’m going to pick 10 movies that weren’t in the running for big awards, that didn’t make any best-of-the-year lists, that no one would call the director or the …
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