If we really want to understand the Republican Party, we have to accept one thing. There is really only one issue that matters at all to the party of Reagan, Trump, Greene and the rest. Making the megarich richer and keeping them richer. Doing this by keeping taxes low on the top bracket and maintaining …
I worked for eight different newspapers in nearly 30 years in journalism. Two of them no longer exist in the form they did when I worked there and two others might as well not exist for all that they have changed. Just as many people remember with fondness the first time they were in love, …
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NARCISSIST — a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.”narcissists who think the world revolves around them.” SOCIOPATH — a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience. Sound like anyone we know? I’m pretty sure I’ll never understand why folks …
If I weren’t as old as I am, and if there weren’t other people I was responsible to, I would probably give up on the United States of America. I’m not sure where I would go. Canada always seems like the easy choice. In most of the country they speak the same language we do, …
‘Cause we’ll all stick together and you can take that to the bank. That’s the cowboys and the hippies and the Rebels and and the Yanks … If you’re familiar with the early 1980s, you might remember the Charlie Daniels Band and the song, “In America.” After all the division of the ’60s and into …
When it comes to protecting voting rights, it’s time. for Plan B. It’s apparent there will be no support for voting rights from Republicans, and without Senators Sinema and Manchin supporting a care-out in the filibuster, Democrats alone cannot get it done. So Mitch McConnell will hold sway at least for this year. So what …
Random musings for a winter Sunday afternoon: In a world of rapidly increasing weather disasters, it seems somehow silly to complain about the weather here, south of Atlatna, today. It isn’t a monsoon, a blizzard or a hurricane. The temperature isn’t 20 below zero and there are no tornados or tsunamis. It’s 35 degrees out …
If you’re looking for one of the most important rules of sports journalism, it’s that you cannot be a fan. It’s why after being a sportswriter from 1978 through the first part of 1996, it was probably 15 years before I could really cheer — even inwardly — for the teams I grew up following. …
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What did the great men and women of the past have in common with each other that many of us lack? There are all sorts of possible answers, but the one of some significance here is that most of them spent at least part of their lives, part of their time, doing physical labor. Too …
“Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” Who would have thought legendary football coach Vince Lombardi would turn out to be one of the great villains of modern American history? Too much? Maybe, but Lombardi’s quote has been used to justify all sorts of bad behavior in the name of winning, and the fact is …
