Oh my God. I know it’s fashionable these days to use OMG along with LOL and all the other goofy text-messaging terms, but when I saw the picture at the beginning of this piece, I was totally blown away. The young man in the picture — he’s 22 — is my nephew Nathan Malin. He …
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Will Donald Trump run for president again? Well, he has pretty much been telling people that the only thing that could keep him from a third run for the White House would be health problems. Since he’s morbidly obese and will be 78 years old in 2024, my guess is it’s less than a 50-50 …
In 71 years and nearly 10 months, I have lived in 10 different states from one ocean to another. Only once did I leave a state and then later return to live there again, and that was a state I left without having any memory of living there the first time. I was born in …
Osama bin Laden once said that the reason his jihad against Americans would succeed was that we were afraid to die and his people weren’t. That might have been overly simplistic. Osama isn’t around anymore, but our battle against Islamic terrorism is far from won. But the real war — the one with ourselves — …
I’m not sure time could be passing any more quickly for me than it currently does. I saw this wonderful quote from Robin Williams about being kind to people and I felt sad that he is no longer with us. I remember thinking it must have been three or four years since he died, but …
Uh oh. The media has all of a sudden become obsessed with the disappearance and killing of another pretty white girl. Call me a cynic, but there are only two reasons this happens. One is of course television ratings. Pretty white girls — usually but not always blonde — keep people glued to their television …
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When I was working in Colorado in the late 1980s, a colleague of mine who wrote a weekly column published a collection of his pieces. I purchased a copy of his book and asked him to inscribe it to me. He did just that, and when I looked at what he had written, I had …
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So much for Million Moron March II. Saturday’s “Justice for J6” rally at the U.S. Capitol demanding freedom for the “political prisoners” from the pro-Trump attack on the Capitol this past January was never expected to be as big a deal as the original. For one thing, law enforcement was prepared this time. So was …
“What is something that should be taught in school but isn’t?” There is a scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1986 film “Peggy Sue Got Married” in which an Algebra teacher asks the time-traveling Peggy Sue why she turned in a completely blank paper on a pop quiz. Her response is that she will have no …
I had an odd question pop into my mind recently. What was the happiest day of my life that didn’t involve other people? So that rules out falling in love, wedding days, anything involving children or other family members. As trite or even corny as it might seem at first, the day I came up …
