“We thought we could change this world with words like ‘love’ and ‘freedom.’ We were part of the lonely crowd inside the Sad Cafe.” When the Eagles recorded and performed “The Sad Cafe” in 1979, the world of which they sang was already gone. The world we were hoping to build in the late ’60s …
I remember the first time I ever saw an iPhone. It was the summer of 2007, my last year in the workforce. One of my colleagues had purchased one of the first ones, and I seem to recall it was the first phone to have all sorts of apps along with the regular stuff a …
I don’t remember exactly how old I was when I first started reading Superman comic books. It was 1960 or ’61 — which would make me 10 or 11 — and comic books were still a dime. They had quarterly episodes. I think they cost 25 cents, but it might have been 50 cents. At …
The worst time of year is almost here. In about three weeks, give or take a day or three, the baseball season will be over. There is nothing in my life with the possible exception of reading books that has given me as much pleasure as baseball, and there were never more enjoyable summers in …
I joined Sigma Phi Epsilon in September 1978 when I returned from overseas and went back to school at George Mason. It was the autumn of “Animal House,” but our chapter was neither Delta or Omega, and we were nothing like Lambda Lambda Lambda in the later movie “Revenge of the Nerds” either. In fact, …
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Americans used to believe in heroes, great men and women who did great things and made our country the engine of progress in the world. We had heroes, some worthy and some unworthy. Those of the second sort were generally ones whose heroism was more mythic than real, more the result of good publicists than …
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I have a friend who has a piece of sports memorabilia that might be worth tens of thousands of dollars. Or it might be worth nothing. My friend has a baseball that he knows was signed by Babe Ruth, but he may have a hard time proving it. If you look at eBay, you will …
If there is one thing going on in my life that flabbergasts me, it’s how difficult it is to watch new movies or television shows. “New” isn’t even the right word for it. Some of the things I can’t bring myself to start have been around for a long time. I have friends who swear …
Does it really all come down to eggheads and rubes? Is it really possible that the most anti-intellectual president since Warren Harding a hundred years ago has convinced 35 percent of American voters that an election he lost by a fairly wide margin was somehow stolen from him? Believe it or not, the country is …
Oh my God. I know it’s fashionable these days to use OMG along with LOL and all the other goofy text-messaging terms, but when I saw the picture at the beginning of this piece, I was totally blown away. The young man in the picture — he’s 22 — is my nephew Nathan Malin. He …
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