If the news out of Washington is true, and if the Supreme Court is about to overturn Roe v Wade, all I can say is that it was pretty much inevitable. Ever since Mitch McConnell essentially stole two seats on the court, a solid right-wing majority has been poised to take down Roe and take …
I grew up thinking Pete Rose was a wonderful player. From the time I was 13 or 14 and for the next 20 years or so, he was my favorite athlete. When I became a professional sportswriter, I interviewed him four times — in 1982, ’84, ’85 and then in the early ’90s after he …
I’ll bet you didn’t know that when Congress voted on the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery, Connecticut voted to keep slavery. Actually, it didn’t happen that way. But if you saw Stephen Spielberg’s movie “Lincoln,” the screenwriters made it happen that way because they thought it would be more dramatic. I’ll bet you didn’t know …
“You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear. You’ve got to be taught from year to year. It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear. You’ve got to be carefully taught.” Hating people who are different from ourselves isn’t something that is hard wired into our brains. When Richard Rodgers wrote “You’ve …
Many people work hard at the necessities of parenting. It is literally the most important thing many of us will ever do in our lives. My daughter and her husband are wonderful parents to the six children in their blended family, and one of the things truly special about them is the effort they put …
I’m proud I had the opportunity in the last election cycle to vote against David Perdue. Twice. If only I lived one Congressional district to the northwest, I could take pride in voting against the Klan Moim, Marjorie Taylor Greene. And I will probably get the chance this fall to vote against Herschel Walker, Brian …
“Once there was a woman who came into your life …” One of the great thrills of my life grew out of one of the greatest friendships. My friend Bill Madden and I are now in the 50th year of our friendship, and late in our first decade, we wrote a book together. If you’ve …
“I wanna give you a little history lesson on homelessness. In 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practice his oratory and body language and how to connect with the masses and then went on to lead a life that got …
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About five years ago, , there was a major earthquake in Guatemala. It was a big one — n0t the big one, but a 6.9 on the Richter Scale –and since my daughter and her family were living in a different part of what is a small country, I was concerned until I heard from …
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“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them …
