Etc.

Now, I feel as sad as anyone that Barbaro is gone.

To hear it told, he was a wonderful creature. A role model. A hero to millions and millions who looked to him for guidance and example.

All said, though, he was a horse.

I know it is unseemly to appear to be speaking ill of [...]

Pitchers & Catchers

I’ve just finished reading Seth Mnookin’s “Feeding the Monster,” a nifty account of the new ownership of the Boston Red Sox and their successes in 2004 and its odd play-out since. (Do people write books about the Milwaukee Brewers or Colorado Rockies? What might they say?)
Besides enriching the legend of how poisonous a varmint [...]

Two Votes

Some of the 187,235,664 candidates for the presidency are being asked tough questions about having voted to go along with the Bush-Lieberman-Cheney war on Iraq. They are expected to do a full-chorus mea culpa and demonstrate to the prosecution that they were wrongwrongwrong.
Well, they were wrong and there are those who said so at the [...]

Why Listen?

The president, puffing the same happy dust as his madman vice president, lectures us as being unworthy of having our own minds because we will not make the mistakes he makes.
“I know there is skepticism and pessimism and that some are condemning a plan before it’s even had a chance to work,” Mr. Bush said [...]

Smear Jobs

It’s even early yet but how much fun is it to watch the dismal world of the Bush administration unfolding in the Scooter Libby trial?
All the smug, arrogant and cavalier attitudes that have marked the administration’s rewriting of American values are falling apart, as you knew it would. Libby blames the White House. The White [...]

Schooled

The urge is to wonder whether they’ve lowered the standards at mighty Princeton, imagining that the scholars there are too dumb to notice that they’ve been conned. Probably not. But the math is pure Ivy League:
Princeton says it will not raise its tuition next year. Hooray, says the world after watching tuitions grow like ivy [...]

Pollution At Work

How long will it take to clean up after these people?
How long will it take to root out the rot they create and represent while they slither around the innards of our government inflicting ruination on the land for money?
When the few liberals “fail” the cost is, maybe, in a bit more government, some annoying [...]

To Run or Not to Run

[Mitt Romney, standing, addresses a few other regional candidates for the presidency.]
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They offered me money. (But not enough.)
They offered me fame and adulation. (But too little.)
“Your country needs you, Mr. Horgan,” they pleaded. “We beseech you. The presidency is at stake and your role is critical. We will give you anything you want to play [...]

Goodbye, Art

The hard thing is that there are so many who actually didn’t get to see Art Buchwald’s wonderworks. To many, Art Buchwald’s legend is an heirloom passed along like Brooklyn Dodger stories or Ed Sullivan imitations. No one saw the original. But Art Buchwald was out there and he was funny in a way that [...]

Sunshine

Actually, I want to know how he did it.
Actually, I can handle it to read that Mickey Mantle, who apparently played baseball in New York or someplace, was a boozer.
The smug satisfaction being taken, often in quarters that do not do well when censorship is applied to them, over closing down the O.J. [...]