There’s a weekly “newspaper” in my community called the Loudoun Times-Mirror. I leaf through it occasionally for a laugh or two, or really because my son likes to retrieve it from the world’s last surviving newspaper box. An article from its September 28 issue is … Continue reading
Usually hedging your bets is a good idea. When you’re me, and you’ve got a favorite American League baseball team and a favorite National League baseball team, and both of them are in the playoffs, you think you’ll be happy when … Continue reading
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