Editor’s note: If you don’t want to see a lot of pictures of me, skip to the next blog entry. Somewhere in my mother’s house, one of two buildings I can call home, there is a 59-year-old edition of a weekly newspaper with my picture in it. It has been decades since I’ve seen it, …
I think it was 11-12 years ago that I had jury duty for the last time. It was the tail end of my 20 years in Southern California, and I think it was the sixth time I had been summoned. I actually served on only three juries — reporters have a difficult time being picked. …
People probably will tend to remember 2020 as the year of the pandemic. By mid-afternoon today, the New York Times was reporting 334,130 Americans dead from COVID-19. Thats still less than the 405,399 Americans killed in World War II, but nothing else in the last 75 years is even close. Let me say something I …
I have always been glad that the bulk of my childhood was spent in a place and time that had real winters. I haven’t lived anywhere like that since 1989, although there have been something like half a dozen visits to Virginia and occasional snow in the last 30 years. It doesn’t snow here in …
First thing you need to understand about Boxing Day is that it doesn’t really involve fisticuffs or the Marquis of Queensbury rules. Oh, there have certainly been occasional matches held on December 26th, but Boxing Day is about a different kind of boxing. Since the early 19th Century, it has been traditional that the day …
My late grandmother, maybe the best person I ever knew, used to tell me a wonderful Christmas story. Two brothers were in their early 20s. Although they had grown up loving Christmas, they had become sort of jaded and didn’t even have trouble getting to sleep on Christmas Eve anymore. Christmas is for kids, they …
I would like to weigh in on the whole “greatest generation” versus “baby boomers” thing. “You waited till your mother died to write this, didn’t you?” Well … “All right, carry on.” Those of us born between 1945-64 take a lot of crap for having it easy. After all, we didn’t have to live through …
We’re NOT A BAD GENERATION, BUT A BIG TEST LIES AHEAD Read More »
Kalawao County, Hawaii, has 86 people. Loving Country, King County and Kenedy County, Texas, have 169, 272 and 404 people. Arthur County, Nebraska, has 463. Those are the five least populous counties in America. Los Angeles County has 10,004,300 and is the most populous. Trumpanzees and young conservative activists think it’s impossible that Joe Biden …
“Stupid don’t wash off.” Is it possible that we Americans really are this stupid? Until a couple of months ago, we were trying to figure out a way to go to Virginia for Christmas. We had a pretty good reason for it. Our two children, their spouses and our six grandchildren are all in Virginia …
It’s beginning to look a lot like … Christmas movies. Especially with people stuck at home because of the coronavirus, an awful lot of families will be watching a lot of holiday movies, both good and bad. In recent years, too many people have been trying to qualify their favorite action movies as Christmas movies …
