Still basking in the glow of Monday’s first ever public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Sterling Park we turned our attention now to baseball, our national pastime, where most MLB teams are playing under God’s lights this summer … Continue reading
Cue patriotic music. Gather hot dogs and all available mustard. Set coordinates for local playground. It is one of my favorite holidays of the year and it is here. For a full description of today’s events read last Friday’s post, … Continue reading
Fourth of July weekend is upon us—isn’t it great when holidays naturally fall on Mondays?—and I’m gearing up for a new/old tradition this year. As I did half a dozen times in my old hometown of Binghamton, New York, this Monday I … Continue reading
More than 24 hours now have passed since the Yankees’ middle-of-the-night meltdown at the hands of the Texas “Rain-gers.” Monday night’s game ended at 2:44 a.m. Tuesday morning after a three-and-a-half-hour rain delay halted play in the top of the … Continue reading
Conservative columnist George Will announced Friday he has left the Republican Party, citing irreconcilable differences or some such thing between him and the GOP’s presumed presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Much as I’ve liked Will in the past, I say good … Continue reading
It’s times like these I wish I paid more attention to British politics. A sovereign nation walking away from an international body? Awesome. Any event that starts with the citizens voting for what they want and ends with politicians resigning … Continue reading
Oh, soccer… you with the periodic way in which you get our hopes up. It’s not just every four years now, either. Somehow it’s become more frequent than that. You got me again last night, as I tuned in to … Continue reading
That was a Game Seven that lived up to the hype. It’s easy to say now but I actually found myself pulling for LeBron and Co. a little bit towards the end of the game and was not disappointed to … Continue reading
I’m glad I stayed up for the end of that one last night, because just reading about Stephen Curry’s blowup and ejection wouldn’t have done it justice, am I right? (Ditto reading about Craig Sager’s postgame interview with LeBron.) And … Continue reading
Today is the first day of summer vacation ’round these parts, and this grownup couldn’t be more excited. (Tempered, of course, by the fact that I’ve got either summer school or summer camp every day from now until the first … Continue reading