A few years back, one of my two closest friends in the world learned he had cancer. He didn’t have a particularly high-paying job and he didn’t have good benefits. Indeed, he told me if it hadn’t been for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, he would be dead. That probably wasn’t an …
What do the following things have in common? European History, Art History, Japanese Language & Culture, German Language & Culture, Italian Language & Culture, and Spanish Language & Culture. If you guessed that all six subjects are offered as advanced placement (AP) courses in Florida high schools, give yourself a gold star. What’s missing from …
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When I first signed up for Satellite Radio in the late 1990s, there were two different companies — Sirius and XM. I chose XM Radio for one reason. It featured radio broadcasts of all the baseball games. It also had commercial-free music channels, starting with ’40s on (Channel) 4, ’50s on 5, ’60s on 6 …
“It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law can’t change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can’t make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. And I think …
David Crosby died this week. He was 81 years old, and if you looked at the rock stars of his generation, you would have to figure he would be high on the list of people you would have guessed wouldn’t make it to 81. I forget who it was who said it, but someone once …
I’m going to brag on myself a little bit here. For the first 16 years of my career as a newspaperman, I covered sports. All different ones, but the three I covered the most were college basketball, pro football and baseball. College basketball was the one I covered at the highest level. At two different …
It’s kind of funny sometimes to be a sports fan, especially when the teams you follow are good. Three of the teams I like very much have each won one championship in the 65 or so years I have been following them. What’s extremely odd about it is that all three won their championship in …
Back in the days when Rudy Giuliani was America’s Mayor, just after 9/11, someone asked him what the death poll in New York City would be. “Almost too much to bear,” Giuliani said. That’s how I felt after a tornado devastated parts of Spalding County Thursday. The death toll was actually just 2 people, but …
At about 4:30 yesterday afternoon, Alexa gave me a serious tornado warning. It doesn’t happen that often. Twelve years ago, during our first winter here, a tornado touched down about seven miles from us, basically obliterating a few good-sized commercial buildings. It happened again yesterday. We were told to go to our basement — we …
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This short piece is the 699th one I have written for Captive on the Carousel. I mention that because something happened the other day that I had been fearing for quite some time. I repeated a topic I wrote about less than two months ago. Sort of. On November 19th, I wrote a piece titled …
