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Q1: Do I do it? yes: hold parades and assign holidaysno: it's terrorism Q2: Do I say it? yes: make Webster add it to the dictionary at gunpointno: it's hate speech Q3: I hear a joke using a cultural reference. Do I have any...
Yaknow the term 'third-world country,' right? I feel like politics is turning our red states into third-world states. I mean, there isn't anything wrong with being a red voter, not at all. But when the leaders sell their dammed soul...
Roy "Red" Parnell had himself a rookie season in 1927. In 87 games (360 plate appearances) he slashed .422-.464-.653, leading the league in batting and onbase as well as hits (141). In roughly a half-season of work he had 24...
MIHC stands for Most Improved Hall (of Fame) Case; I did this once, several years ago. Bill James first thought the idea up in his "The Baseball Book" series that ran from 1990-1992. Before I get to the top ten,...
I just downloaded a vulgarity governor app on my phone - it's really cool; it changes all my profane words to gosh. For example, if I say "gosh" it changes it to "gosh." I mean when I say gosh it......
Obituaries
When I think about Bob Lanier, I think three things: Great player on a team with no directionHuge feet (size 22 shoes)Airplane! Lanier was the prototypical 20-10 player; he averaged 20.1 points and 10.1 rebounds over his 14-year career. He...
Gino Cappelletti was the Paul Hornung of the AFL, a hybrid player who could beat you from any direction. Primarily a kicker, defensive back and wide receiver, he scored 42 career touchdowns and an AFL record 1,130 points in the...
Paul Vance was a prolific songwriter and producer who wrote over a thousand songs that made it to vinyl. He is best-known as half of the Vance/Pockriss writing team that wrote “Leader of the Laundromat,” “Catch a Falling Star, “Tracy,”...
If I set out to compile a list of the best musical families, several obvious names would come first (and then the Interweb would flood me with dozens of others): the Jacksons, the Carter/Cash family, the Osmonds (stop laughing), the...
I feel like she was too famous for one of my usual obits ... it would take me weeks to write a proper obituary for Loretta Lynn, and a book publisher to get it distributed. So how about ten things...
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A group of us were having our men’s group and talking about men displaying their emotions and it being Ok for men to cry. While this is more acceptable in society now, I think some people are judgmental about it....
Chuck Cunningham was a character on a show that started in January 1974 and lasted 11 seasons. He was the older brother of the Cunningham family the main family of the show. The star of the show was Ron Howard...
Terry July 3, 2021 “If This Goes On — " is the story of a revolution to wrest control of the United States back from a fundamentalist totalitarian regime, founded by Reverend Nehemiah Scudder, that sprouted up after WWIII destroyed Europe...
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A group of us were having our men’s group and talking about men displaying their emotions and it being Ok for men to cry. While this is more acceptable in society now, I think some people are judgmental about it....
Halfway home, just above Emerald Bay, I overtook the worst driver in the world. Ross MacDonald / Gone Girl I’ve always considered Ross MacDonald, known for his series of Lew Archer detective novels, a great writer with a unique,...
My wife and I are an adventurous couple. Unfortunately, there's been this covid-19 thingy that has curtailed our wild lifestyle. Maybe you’ve heard of it? Anyway, for the last year and a bit, there’s been no Bingo, no Casinos and...
I loved my father. Fathers and sons playing catch – what is it about throwing that baseball back and forth in the yard, anyway? We did so many other things together, after all. So many things shared and remembered by...
I’ve noticed in the last couple of years that while writing I tend to skip over little words like ‘the’ and ‘and’ and the like. I also sometimes skip over letters. For example, the word ‘look’ turns into ‘lok.’ It...
