Originally written July 4, 2020 On the day Trump leaves office, we’ll still have a younger generation with worse life prospects than their parents had faced.”— DAVID BROOKS, New York Times” David Brooks might be the closest thing we have to a philosopher among modern newspaper columnists. The talk about one generation not having it …
Not all the movies I enjoy watching are good movies. In fact, there are some bad ones I have watched over and over again, sometimes because they’re fun and sometimes because they bring back memories of when I saw them or who I saw them with. I’ll always associate seeing “M*A*S*H” — not a bad …
I have never been a big believer in Hell. Oh, I believe in God, if for no other reason than not wanting to believe that man is the crown of creation. I think it’s important to believe there is a greater purpose to life than just individual happiness. Religion is a tougher call. To me, …
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So the state of Arizona passed a law in 1864 making almost all abortions illegal. There’s just one catch. There was no state of Arizona in 1864. Arizona didn’t become a state until 1912. In fact, Arizona just became a federal territory in 1863, halfway through the Civil War back east. It was a moralistic …
In August 2017, the first year Donald Trump was in office, there was a total eclipse visible in much of the United States. As best as I can recall, folks were pretty excited about it, and the Trump-is-Jesus crowd didn’t say anything about deep spiritual meanings like the end of the world or the rapture. …
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I have written a couple of times recently about millennials talking about things boomers still do that have lost their coolness, if they ever had any. A couple of examples: Boomers still love to go to the mall, while the younger, hipper among us shop online. Boomers still love to go to restaurants, while those …
Have we really devolved so far intellectually in the last seven years? In August 2017, Americans in a large part of the country enjoyed a total eclipse of the sun. My wife and I drove to Greenville, S.C., where we viewed the eclipse in Furman University’s football stadium. It was a truly memorable occasion that …
Fake news? Maybe, but it isn’t as one-sided as folks on the right would like to think, and there seems to be a lot more than just the news that’s phony. Nobody seems to use it for more advantage than the man who made the term famous. Donald Trump started it all in 2016 with …
If there’s one sport that seems to ask the most of its participants in terms of honor, at least at the professional level, it’s golf. It’s a sport where it would be very easy to cheat by moving your ball even an inch or so — improving your lie — and turning a terrible shot …
Today is Easter, the holiest day of the Christian religion. It honors the day Christ returned from the dead after dying on the cross to redeem humanity for its sins. This year it honors the Second Coming of Christ, also known as … Are you really going to go there? Well, yeah. This past Monday, …
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