If there’s one thing that’s truly annoying, it’s seeing lists of the best something-or-other of all time and seeing that nearly everyhthing on the list has happened in the last five or 10 years. I never knew that “Breaking Bad” and “Game of Thrones” were the two greatest dramas in 70 years of television or …
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In 1995, with the baseball season starting late in a year after there was no World Series, I made a vow. I had been a baseball fan since I was 7 in the late 1950s, but I was so angry at the angst every few years as owners and players battled over more money than …
Is there anything we could learn about Donald Trump anymore that could shock the people who have chosen him as their hero? Apparently destroying documents illegally by tearing them up like a child having a tantrum isn’t anything his base cares about. If they did care, if it was something that upset them, Trump would …
For about 20 years — from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s — Pete Rose was my favorite baseball player. He was never the most talented guy in the game, but he had the most amazing drive and desire to succeed. No one would ever compare him to Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle, but …
“I see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day and the dark sacred night, and I think of myself what a wonderful world.” There is so much beauty in this world. All you have to do is look for it. For me, the beauty I have found can be covered with …
Do you remember the first book you read as a kid that wasn’t written for kids? If you go to the trouble to follow my writing on this site, the odds are pretty good that you consider reading as one of the more rewarding things you do. You probably started young. I don’t know of …
The Washington Commanders? Seriously? It probably wasn’t the worst of all the possible choices, but it sure seems to me that there’s only one possible response to the once-proud NFL team’s choice of a new nickname. Meh. So the former Washington Redskins, winners of three Super Bowls but essentially irrelevant in this century, have announced …
If I weren’t as old as I am, and if there weren’t other people I was responsible to, I would probably give up on the United States of America. I’m not sure where I would go. Canada always seems like the easy choice. In most of the country they speak the same language we do, …
‘Cause we’ll all stick together and you can take that to the bank. That’s the cowboys and the hippies and the Rebels and and the Yanks … If you’re familiar with the early 1980s, you might remember the Charlie Daniels Band and the song, “In America.” After all the division of the ’60s and into …
When it comes to protecting voting rights, it’s time. for Plan B. It’s apparent there will be no support for voting rights from Republicans, and without Senators Sinema and Manchin supporting a care-out in the filibuster, Democrats alone cannot get it done. So Mitch McConnell will hold sway at least for this year. So what …
