I wrote about the comic strip “Pearls Before Swine” the other day, and it struck me again that the character who is perhaps the one who is mostly there for comic relief has become one the the most poignant ones in the strip. The recent strip was about Larry the Croc walking his kid to …
WHEN THEY YAP, YAp, YAP AT US, THEY ARE SHOWING LOVE Read More »
“It’s not for man to interfere in the ways of God.” The quote above is the last line of a 1957 movie few people have seen but many of heard of. “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” was one of those movies from the post-war era about science showing us places we could go but we …
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I think the first time I ever heard of Lahaina was in the early 1970s when Loggins & Messina came out with their best album. “Full Sail” was wonderful, and “Lahaina” was one of the quirkier songs, a ditty about life being slow on Maui with centipedes crawling all over the place. I saw them …
The first Karen I remember meeting was male. Uh, Mike. Kids read this … Probably not as many as I would wish or you would fear, but this isn’t anything you need to warn Gov. DeSantis about. I have known very few actual Karens in my life. Oddly enough, the only one that comes to …
Be very careful what you wish for. It’s difficult to imagine a credible Republican candidate next year who isn’t named Donald Trump, so seeing the far-right Federalist Society argue that Trump is disqualified from being elected president again under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment is at worst confusing. It’s an interesting amendment, designed …
I heard a song today I hadn’t heard for quite some time, and it brought back a very pleasant memory. There are four ways I can listen to music when I’m in the car. It’s rare that I play CDs, but I have satellite radio, an old iPod with 17,000 songs on it and my …
A FUN OLD SONG WAS A WHOLE LOT OLDER THAN I KNEW Read More »
One of my great pleasures when I was younger was reading newspapers. Each morning in my teens and 20s, I read the Washington Post, I don’t remember when I first started reading daily comic strips. but I know Charles Schulz started writing Peanuts when I was less than a year old and wrote his last …
I was sad when the U.S. women’s soccer team lost to Sweden Sunday, but not horribly so. Let me explain. I’m not anti-American. In fact, it probably pleases me more to see the women’s team succeed than the men’s. At least the women’s team has won the World Cup in my lifetime, something the men’s …
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Seven years ago today I lived the longest day of my life. I got up at 5 a.m., drove to Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport and caught a 7 a.m. flight to Denver. I spent the day in Colorado and caught a red eye flight back to Atlanta that arrived almost exactly 24 hours after …
I don’t have any problem with wokeness. In fact, all being woke really means is calling people what they want to be called. Sure there’s the confusion about gender — cis and otherwise — but mostly it’s avoiding the unpleasant, derogatory terms for various races and ethnicities. Yes, it gets confusing. I was eight years …
