“Isn’t it pretty to think so?” I just don’t get Ernest Hemingway. I love the last line of “The Sun Also Rises,” mostly because Robert B. Parker has used it in at least five different Spenser novels. But as far as Hemingway’s oeuvre, give me Thomas Wolfe or F. Scott Fitzgerald any time. When it …
From four years ago, but worth another look … In March 1990, when I was covering college basketball for the Reno Gazette-Journal, I was driving from Reno to Boise, Idaho (only 35 miles from my favorite Idaho town, Tickle Me). to cover the Big Sky Conference basketball tournament. It was a pretty nice day and …
“When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go … downtown.” I had my iPod set on Shuffle the other day and Petula Clark’s biggest hit ever from the mid ’60s came up, and just for a moment or two, it was 6:30 a.m. in the late winter of 1964-65 and …
About 10 years ago, someone asked me to do a list of my favorite films. Following is that list, with comments added. Just for the heck of it, my five favorite films in 15 different categories (not in order, although favorite in each category is in boldface). Unless otherwise noted, if it is a movie …
It’s funny the difference time makes. If I had spent an hour 10 years ago the way I just did, I would have been filled with despair. I set out to play nine holes of golf and I quit after four. I was eight over par for the four holes I played. Over nine holes, …
If you don’t like someone, probably the worst thing you can wish on them is poor health. Aggravating physical conditions are one thing, but if enmity is involved, conditions that are humorous and/or embarrassing, that’s even better. Explosive diarrhea, projectile vomiting, chronic flatulence, frequent incontinence are among the most embarrassing. Brazilian strongman Jair Bolsonaro has …
“There’s something happening here …” In six days, it will be exactly one year since my first post launched this website. It was a couple of months before I was posting mostly on a daily basis, but as we approach day number 365, I have written more than 260 posts on a variety of subjects. …
In general, when someone starts whining about someone else impinging on their rights, it’s because they want to behave in an obnoxious way. That’s what bemuses me the most about seven states — all of them red and many here in the South — forbidding school districts from requiring students to wear masks if they …
If original intent is such a great thing, it seems to me there is a great deal more we ought to be doing with it. Let’s start with the whole red/blue state thing. You might be aware that tax money paid to the federal government has a tendency to flow from so-called blue states to …
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“OK boomer …” In general, I don’t have a problem with the expression. Both of my children, neither of whom are baby boomers, will live as well or better than their parents, and we have no complaints about the way we live. Both earned their success, working hard in school, making good career choices and …
