Three of the finest men I know are part of my family, one in my generation and two in the next. There are two others who deserve to be in that company, my two nephews in Massachusetts and New York. As best as I can tell, there isn’t one person among the five with a …
Remember when Republicans used to be the party of big business? When I was younger, folks used to oversimplify things by saying Democrats were the party of the union halls and Republ;icans the party of the country clubs. That doesn’t seem true anymore. At least when it comes to Republicans, I feel like they’re the …
One of the toughest adjectives to define is the word “old.” I had my first experience with that more than 25 years ago when I was in a store buying a couple of autographed baseballs. I don’t remember how much they cost, but I purchased signed baseballs from Hall of Famers Frank Robinson and Johnny …
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root …” Three weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed the Emmitt Till Anti-Lynching Act into law, making it a federal hate crime to cause someone’s death or serious bodily injury by hanging or other actions. The bill was named for one …
This is a reprint with some revisions of something I wrote eight years ago for another website. I was watching two baseball movies — one I’d seen before — and it got me thinking. There are at least six or eight different movies I have heard different people calling the best ever and there are …
EVEN WITHOUT THE OLD ONES, SO MANY GREAT BASEBALL MOVIES Read More »
“Once there was a woman who came into your life …” One of the great thrills of my life grew out of one of the greatest friendships. My friend Bill Madden and I are now in the 50th year of our friendship, and late in our first decade, we wrote a book together. If you’ve …
“I wanna give you a little history lesson on homelessness. In 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practice his oratory and body language and how to connect with the masses and then went on to lead a life that got …
SENATOR STRAWBERRY BRINGS HITLER INTO 21ST CENTURY Read More »
About five years ago, , there was a major earthquake in Guatemala. It was a big one — n0t the big one, but a 6.9 on the Richter Scale –and since my daughter and her family were living in a different part of what is a small country, I was concerned until I heard from …
IN TIME OF TRAGEDY, NICE TO KNOW PEOPLE ARE SAFE Read More »
“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them …
When I was 12 years old, I was kind of obsessed with numbers. I recently found a small spiral notebook in my mother’s house. It was a partial chronicle of our trip from our home in southwestern Ohio to New York City in the summer of 1962. I’m pretty sure it was at least the …
