“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 …
I don’t remember the first time I saw the NBC peacock on my television screen, announcing that the show about to begin would be in color. I don’t remember the first time I saw a show on a color television set. I’m pretty sure it was sometime around 1961 and it was at my grandparents’ …
I’m sort of appalled at how reluctant I have become to try new things. For the last few years, I have been doing crossword puzzles and other word games in an effort to give myself a fighting chance to stave off dementia as I age. I got pretty good at the New York Times and …
“Only the good die young …” Despite the wonderful Billy Joel song from the late 1970s, this probably isn’t completely true. There are certainly bad people who die young, and there are good folks who live full, long lives. But of course we remember the good ones who predecease us. And we miss them. Always. …
