“Not one of us ever grows up to be what he intended to be. Not one of us fulfills his own expectations. We are all our own children, in that sense. At some point, somewhere, we have to stop making demands.” Sometimes we find profundities where we least expect them. I was sailing through my …
Some of the fondest memories of my childhood came in a library. I always thought it was an old Carnegie Library, one of the 2,509 built in the U.S. with grants from the richest man in the world. It turns out Crestline, Ohio, wasn’t on the list, but the library there — whoever built it …
“Two girls for every boy …” Are there still summer songs? I don’t know, but if there aren’t songs that sing of the sweetness of summer, of sunny days, balmy nights and the girls on the beach, it would be a real shame. Because there’s nothing like a summer song to help you rejoice in …
Name 15 record albums that have most affected your life? This game looked like fun when I saw it on Facebook some years back. Here‘s my contribution. Each selection has its own story… 1. “High Tides and Green Grass (Greatest Hits),” the Rolling Stones — From 1965, the first album I ever owned, great early …
This will be a very short post. I basically make it so I don’t have to scream. I have been a baseball fan since 1957, and one of my earliest baseball memories is heartbreaking — the line drive by Gil McDougal that effectively ruined Herb Score’s career. I’m sorry to say today felt almost as …
The Internet is killing us. That might sound like a silly statement, especially from someone spreading his beliefs on the Internet, but bear with me for a minute. In a piece in today’s Washington Post, conservative columnist Max Boot points out from various credible sources that a quarter of Republicans support Qanon’s beliefs, a third …
For those who are confused, a “mask mandate” does not mean a pleasant evening with the Lone Ranger. It’s sort of a shame. If it did, it might be easier to get the Trumpanzees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. No, as most of you know since you’re smart enough to be reading this, a mask …
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If you’re a Washington baseball fan — D.C., not Seattle — this season has been sort of heartbreaking. It was easy to write off the partial season played in 2020 because of the pandemic, and those of us who follow the Nationals were able to say that the last time there was a full season, …
I wonder how many of the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th are sorry they did it. I wonder if any of them understand they were conned by Donald Trump into betraying their country. I wonder if they saw any difference between Black Lives Matter protesters standing up to police officers and …
Time passes so damn quickly. It seems completely bizarre to me that I look at what was essentially the last golden age in Hollywood — before everything became special effects, CGI and comic books — and realize that it was nearly 50 years ago. If you look at the ’70s just before “Jaws” and “Star …
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