If you’re a Washington baseball fan — D.C., not Seattle — this season has been sort of heartbreaking. It was easy to write off the partial season played in 2020 because of the pandemic, and those of us who follow the Nationals were able to say that the last time there was a full season, …
I wonder how many of the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th are sorry they did it. I wonder if any of them understand they were conned by Donald Trump into betraying their country. I wonder if they saw any difference between Black Lives Matter protesters standing up to police officers and …
Time passes so damn quickly. It seems completely bizarre to me that I look at what was essentially the last golden age in Hollywood — before everything became special effects, CGI and comic books — and realize that it was nearly 50 years ago. If you look at the ’70s just before “Jaws” and “Star …
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When I was in my teens, my family went to a swimming pool a few blocks from where we lived. It was a community pool, and we paid a fee each year to belong. I remember many hot afternoons hanging out at the pool, swimming and playing games in the water and getting out for …
If there’s an acronym I’m getting really tired of seeing, it’s GOAT. Greatest of All Time. For one thing, it’s completely meaningless. There is no way to compare athletes from different eras, and in many instances, the Greatest tends to be someone more people have seen recently. And comparing from sport to sport is even …
There’s usually one person in Congress — in both parties — that folks in the opposition can look at and find it very easy to ridicule. This year’s Republican Party provides a plethora of candidates, any one of three who would be high in the pantheon. Sometimes the ridiculous ones make it to the Senate. …
“Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya …” When someone wants to accuse someone else of being naive in their dealings with others, they accuse them of thinking we should all hold hands and sing “Kumbaya.” I wonder if any of them even know what it means. I was 11 years old and spending a week at Camp …
We used to be so damn goofy. In the fall of 1969, I had friends who were in a fraternity at George Washington University. They had a game they played called the Eating Contest. It’s not the same food as the picture, but you get the picture. To succeed, you had to eat 10 McDonald’s …
Here we go again. I hate to admit it, but one of the defining things in my life has been weight loss, but I’m pretty sure that I have lost more than 500 pounds in my life, despite being a skinny kid. I think I was 22 the first time my weight topped 200, and …
I am surprised at how mixed my feelings have turned out to be about Billionaires in Space. My first reaction was completely negative. I was annoyed that there are people so rich they could toss billions of dollars at what is really little more than a cool hobby. Then I had the satiric reaction. Hey, …
