The first contact I had with Tommy Lasorda was in 1983 in Philadelphia. I don’t remember why I was there, what I was expecting to write about, but it was only the second time I had been in a major league press box. It was an uneventful game in an uneventful season, but it contained …
“I never heard of a president like you …” In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, an embattled farmer wrote to President Roosevelt: “Dear Mr. President: This is just to tell you that everything is all right now. The man you sent found our house all right, and we went down to the …
“I’m too old for this shit.” When I think of all the pop culture references I have made over the years, the thought that I would ever quote the “Lethal Weapon” movies would be almost ludicrous. It not just Shane Black, the rootin’-tootin’est screenwriter ever.One of my favorite throwaway quotes come from another of his …
“Hello, Georgia. By the way — there’s no way we lost Georgia. There’s no way. That was a rigged election.” Just yesterday evening, Donald Trump visited Georgia, ostensibly to support Republican candidates for the two U.S. Senate seats still up for grabs. I say ostensibly because these days, when Trump goes anywhere, it’s always about …
“Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone …” There are so many things we used to take for granted. When my wife and I lived in California, we had a multiplex movie theatre exactly one mile from us. We could literally decide to go to the movies …
“But something is happening here and you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?” If there’s one thing that is starting to seem very strange to me, it’s the idea of generations. Was it the statement that those born between 1946 and 1964 were Baby Boomers? Or that those who grew up during …
Consider yourself lucky you aren’t spending this weekend in Georgia. Our mailboxes are full of political mailings, mostly from Republicans. Our phones ring a dozen times a dat with robocalls. Our televisions have ad after ad, with one party’s ad following the other ad nauseam. I don’t think Georgia has had this much time in …
Is 2020 really over? Have we really moved on to 2021 or is our clock radio going to click over from 5:59 to 6:00 a,m. and we’ll hear Sonny and Cher singing “I Got You Babe” just before we realize it’s January 1st, 2020, and the worst year in a long time has begun to …
I think if you were to ask most people, they would tell you the year that ends tonight at midnight wasn’t such a great year. In this country alone, 343 thousand people have died from COVID-19, with a record 3,808 dying yesterday. Pretty crummy, huh? The economy went south, and whatever recovery has come since …
Editor’s note: This originally appeared about five years ago. but I have updated it and think it’s still worth reading. I can’t believe I used to take politics seriously. Now I don’t know if there’s anyone left in Washington, D.C., I can take seriously at all except for my younger brother, and he’s too intelligent …
