In Monday’s post I gave some anonymous children a hard time about their goofy worldviews and political opinions. They’re kids; I get it. They’re just parroting disturbing information peddled by so-called grownups who should know better. Speaking of which… Consider … Continue reading
This is going back a bit, but not exactly time sensitive so worth examining on this Columbus Day. (You know Columbus… the murderous pillager of native lands.) Last Sunday my hometown paper (that’s The Washington Post) published a piece in … Continue reading
The first few days of the Major League Baseball playoffs have been intense to say the least. The two wild card games themselves, honestly, were two of the best postseason games you’ll see, right up there with last year’s World Series … Continue reading
I hold no illusions of grandeur, that people actually read this blog to find news or that there are legions of readers out there beside themselves just itching to know what I think about a particular topic. I mostly write … Continue reading
There has much debate recently in my local paper concerning the infamous Purple Line Metro, a proposed 16-mile stretch of railway cutting through suburban Maryland. Last Sunday there was a front-page story about a number of Marylanders who stand to … Continue reading
A common refrain when an elderly person dies is he’s in a better place now. No one’s saying that about Hugh Hefner. The iconic magazine editor and cultural crusader passed away Wednesday at his home—the most famous private residence in … Continue reading
The most engrossing story in sports the past few days, of course, has been the great controversy surrounding the national anthem and how NFL players would observe said ceremony. This, of course, coming on the heels of President Trump’s declaration last … Continue reading
Last night I found myself with two fine offerings on the television screen, shows about which I had doubts a week or so ago. Turns out that Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War is fantastic, the first episode I reviewed last week … Continue reading
‘Round these parts tomorrow is something called the Dulles Plane Pull. It’s exactly what it sounds like: people at Dulles Airport trying to pull airplanes with ropes or rubber bands or some such thing. There’s also a 5K race in … Continue reading
A story last Sunday in my local paper (that would be The Washington Post) describes the milquetoast campaigns put forth by the two major-party candidates for governor of Virginia this year. No mud slinging, no name calling, no bizarre clips on … Continue reading