The first thing to remember about the situation in Afghanistan is that it was always going to end this way. Afghanistan isn’t called the “graveyard of empires” without good reason. Just as the British failed to conquer it in the 19th century and the Russians failed in the 20th century, we have received our own …
Back in the early days of our friendship, when the Milhous guy was still in the White House, my friend Bill Madden and I discovered something interesting. We knew someone named Munzell — the only person I’ve ever known bearing that name — who had a tendency to be sort of annoying. When discussing him, …
If I still had kids in school during the time of this pandemic, I would be asking one question: “What are you people doing to reduce the chance my kids will get COVID-19?” At this point, little else matters, and it appalls me how many so-called parents see precautions beiong taken as some sort of …
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear. Anyone who loves Donald Trump and has yet to purchase a “My Pillow” from Mike Lindell is extremely ungrateful. Lindell is almost singlehandedly keeping the man some refer to as Agolf Twitler is the news, so when he is reinstated by the Supreme Court and is back in the …
IT’S AUGUST 13TH AND TRUMP STILL ISN’T PRESIDENT Read More »
God, I hate dieting. Although I’m actually pretty good at it when I put my mind to it. I’ve had three different diets — in 1985, 1989 and 2010 — where I lose a total of about 275 pounds. A number of lesser ones probably take my lifetime total up to at least 500 pounds …
If there’s one thing that always seems to be good for a chuckle, it’s looking back in the not-so-distant past at how inexpensive things used to be. The menu at the beginning of this piece was from a diner-type restaurant in Alexandria, Va., in 1938, 11 years before I was born. If the prices seem …
DINER-TYPE EATERY SHOWS HOW MUCH WE HAVE CHANGED Read More »
Do people ever really heal? Oh, I know that cuts and sores heal, and most broken bones do the same. But what about psychological wounds that are the results of things bad people do to us? I would think people need to be incredibly strong to get over those. Sadly, I’m not that strong. I …
LIFE CAN HURT, AND SOME WOUNDS NEVER REALLY HEAL Read More »
My most embarrassing moment in nearly 18 years covering sports came in 1980 at RFK Stadium in Washington. I was covering a Washington Diplomats game for a small suburban paper that no longer exists, and my sister asked me to get an autograph for her. The player was aging Dutch superstar Johann Cruyff, and even …
Anybody who thinks time doesn’t pass more quickly the older you get is simply dead wrong. It was 12 years ago this month that Nicole and I visited Pauline and her family in the mountains 40 miles east of Seattle. They are enjoying their home leave after two years in Beijing before going to Virginia …
GROWTH OF THE FORMER ‘A.B.’ SHOWS PASSAGE OF TIME Read More »
I joined Twitter nearly eight years ago. mostly to see what other people were saying. The idea of having just 140 characters — the original Twitter limit — to make a point seemed to me another step down the road to illiteracy. I remember there was a short-lived site — the name doesn’t come to …
