Archive for May, 2011

Queen Betty’s snub gives me a royal pain …

May 25, 2011
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Queen Betty

I’m not a huge fan of royalty in general or the Royals in particular and so the recent Royal Wedding would have been a distinct pain in the keester had I actually paid any attention to it. I managed to avoid it only with great diligence, but now the flap with President Obama and...

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Mets are experts when it comes to overpaid ballplayers …

May 24, 2011
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Wright

I am convinced there will be a resurgence for my beloved Mets someday, but given the current gloomy situation, I can be forgiven for thinking that someday may be long in coming. The latest dustup, with team owner Fred Wilpon taking pokes at several of his star players in a New Yorker magazine article,...

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Hoping for a bit of lower-case rapture Saturday night …

May 19, 2011
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Rapture

Forgive the crassness of that declaration, but the widespread news coverage of the impending Rapture on Saturday night has me envisioning a bit off lower-case rapture. And I realize how pathetic that sounds that a grown man would feel compelled to invoke the end of the world in order to foster carnal pursuits, but...

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Awful weather seems to implicate Global Warming …

May 12, 2011
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flooding

OK, everybody raise their hand. With all of the horrible weather events that have taken place in the last decade or so, how many of you have thought – way deep down – “I wonder if all these storms and floods and hurricanes could somehow be linked to the frantic warnings we’ve been getting...

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Grumbling about hitting streaks and dumb golf rules …

May 4, 2011
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Either

Grrrrr. Two of my least favorite things reared their ugly heads at right about the same time in recent days, and since it gives me indigestion to write about either of them, I figured I’d get it out of my system and address both of them at the same time. Andre Ethier, a member...

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