Woody Allen said it first. “Eighty percent of life is just showing up.” That’s why Republicans, who are definitely a minority, manage to win elections, particularly in years when people aren’t voting to elect a president. Oh, those aren’t the only times they win. Even in elections with high turnout, Republicans in many states work …
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Halloween was never a big favorite of mine. I don’t remember much about trick-or-treating, and in half a century or so of being an adult, I can recall exactly one Halloween party I attended. It was 1985 and I was living in St. Louis. Most of the people at the party were watching Game Six …
“Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies. “The basic tenets of critical race theory, or CRT, …
First impressions can be difficult to overcome. Especially when they’re reinforced. I came of age in the late ’60s and early ’70s, and I was never a fan of stoner humor. There are few bits that are as similar to fingernails on a chalkboard than Cheech and Chong’s “Dave’s Not Here,” and I never really …
If America actually manages to work through its current insanity and at the same time manages to remain one country instead of two, it may require a small miracle. It used to be said that God protects drunks, small children and the United States of America, and if there were always serious political differences, somehow …
It has been a lot of years since average working people had any kind of serious leverage when it came to dealing with their employers. Oh, individuals with specific skill sets sometimes can negotiate. But for the most part, in the age of Walmart, when your boss says jump, you had better not even ask …
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Most people have to struggle to lose weight. For me, that’s the easy half of the battle. I can lose weight if I put my mind to it, but sadly, it has been extremely difficult to keep it off. I have had three different diets in my post-35 years in which I have lost more …
I have a weird quirk sometimes when it comes to dates. I think it’s one I shared with President George H.W. Bush. I seem to recall during one of his presidential campaigns he said something about it being the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor when it was actually September 7th rather than December …
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“We thought we could change this world with words like ‘love’ and ‘freedom.’ We were part of the lonely crowd inside the Sad Cafe.” When the Eagles recorded and performed “The Sad Cafe” in 1979, the world of which they sang was already gone. The world we were hoping to build in the late ’60s …
I remember the first time I ever saw an iPhone. It was the summer of 2007, my last year in the workforce. One of my colleagues had purchased one of the first ones, and I seem to recall it was the first phone to have all sorts of apps along with the regular stuff a …
