Dick Allen died today. If you’re not a baseball fan, you probably don’t know much about him, but if you followed the game in the ’60s and ’70s, you probably know he was one heck of a ballplayer. He was part of the second generation of black ballplayers to reach the big leagues, and he …
“When did we as a country lose the ability to debate calmly and find common ground in order to solve problems? Was it one big event or a series of them?” I saw this question on Twitter as an inquiry to the wonderful Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station, maybe the most intelligent blog site I’ve …
Things get weird at the end of centuries, and they get really weird at the end of millennia. Yes, I know we’re 20 years past that, but have you noticed that the weirdness not only didn’t go away this time, it just keeps getting more and more strange. My favorite story of what can happen …
I used to think I was extremely knowledgeable about popular culture. Through most of the ’80s and into the ’90s, it was easy to keep up. Music, movies, television … if it was popular, I knew what it was. Not anymore. As we approach the end of the year, newspapers and the rest of the …
I have little or so use for the Republican Party’s latest blonde. Unlike Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, though, Georgia’s Kelly Loeffler was appointed to the state to fill a vacancy in December 2019 when Sen. Johnny Isakson resigned for health reasons. I’m not going to go into her issues or ever talk about why …
“Hubris is the characteristic of excessive confidence or arrogance, which leads a person to believe that he or she may do no wrong. The overwhelming pride caused by hubris is often considered a flaw in character.” Americans aren’t the only people who think we’re the crown of creation, who somehow think we don’t have to live by the …
It’s beginning to look a lot like … like what? This Thursday will be Thanksgiving, but we’re being asked not to hold traditional big family celebrations because of the coronavirus. Otherwise the holiday song will change from “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” to “Grandpa Got Wiped out by a Virus.” Actually, the day …
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” To clarify, that’s mad as in insane, not mad as in angry. Otherwise there would be a great deal more destruction going on. This quote is often attributed to Euripides, but it actually dates back only three or four hundred years, appearing in Longfellow’s “Masque …
“Freedom’s just another word for … an excuse to behave badly.” When I saw the accompanying picture from Saturday’s Million Moron March, which I swear must have attracted at least 75 percent of the nation’s village idiots, I really wanted to laugh. I couldn’t, though. Too many flags in one place, conflicting meanings. I’m sort …
I wonder if anyone saw the irony in this. Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene was recently elected to Congress. It was sort of a big deal, since Donald Trump had endorsed her and she was an outspoken member of QAnon. This week she was in Washington for freshman orientation and she complained to her followers …
