“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 …
This isn’t going to be about golf, but something that happened yesterday might help make the point I want to pursue. On the 12th hole at Augusta National Sunday, Tiger Woods had the worst hole of his long career. The hole is a par three, and Woods put three different shots into the water and …
“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 …
Once was a time I really enjoyed college football. I’ve always liked Ohio State and Virginia, and at least in 1963, I got tremendous enjoyment out of watching Roger Staubach lead Navy to the Cotton Bowl. Navy was 9-2 that season, and oddly enough, both of its losses came in the same stadium, to SMU …
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 …
It’s getting worse? Yes it is, and it’s apparently 69 days until we’re going to get any presidential leadership on it. Coronavirus infection rates, hospitalization rates and deaths are climbing and climbing fast. All this after our president said the media was just talking about Covid-19 to hurt his campaign and that once the election …
Nobody would ever call me a mountain man. The farthest above sea level I’ve ever been — not counting airplanes — is a little above 12,000 feet. I can’t claim too much credit for that, though. It was in 1988 in Rocky Mountain National Park on a paved road and I drove there in my …
This isn’t really about Donald Trump, even though the picture would lead you to believe it is. It’s about Republicans and how desperate they are to be cool, or at least to rise above being lame. The story begins in 1984, when Republicans decided that the perfect music to introduce President Reagan at his campaign …
So let’s be honest with ourselves. How successful were Democrats in the recent elections? If you saw the election as being all about whether the damage being done by Donald Trump could be stopped, you’ll probably think things went really well. And from that standpoint, they did. Quite a bit of what Trump did by …
Well, that was interesting. Under the heading of always being honest when you’re wrong with predictions, my pick of Joe Biden winning with 350 electoral votes was less than perfect. Biden has won the election, but it looks like he’s going to max out at 306, which is still 36 more than he needed to …
