There was a time when the divide between right and left, Republican and Democrat, didn’t seem anything remotely approaching the chasm that exists today. I imagine for the millions of whatever alphabetically labeled generations are included in ages 18-40, there may have never been a point in their lifetime when they saw much in...
The collective malfeasance of the current Congress as it wallows around in the self-inflicted wound of the debt-ceiling fiasco ought to bring into greater clarity a starkly disturbing reality: the current system can’t be fixed. Our national political arena provides good government for corporate special interests that provide so much of the campaign money...
Two of my favorite things converge in the release of the movie “Moneyball” in September, and I’m more than a little fascinated by what seems from a distance to be a vanity production of an admittedly interesting topic. Baseball movies have – to understate it a bit – a checkered history that dates back...
The election of 2000 is likely to be seen – with the benefit of a few years or even decades of hindsight – as one of the saddest chapters in our political history. It’s one of the great sticking points between so-called Liberals and Conservatives, but it says here that the election was stolen...
If the knuckleheads inside the Beltway – and I exclude very few from that description – allow this latest business of increasing the National Debt ceiling to spiral out of control and somehow do additional damage to a badly limping economy than it already has, I am going to blow a gasket. I don’t...
It’s been a long time since a television program had the kind of impact on me that the recent Curt Flood documentary from HBO would elicit. Watching “The Curious Case of Curt Flood” last week just blew me away, in part because he had always been one of my favorite players when I was...