Most people believe that if one has the talent and the luck to play professional sports, you’ve got it made. One or two contracts, and even the most extravagant person should have enough money to live well for the rest of their lives, and their children should be taken care of. But, like Santa Claus […]

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As you might guess, I am not religious. I am somewhere in the agnostic range most of the time. Since, however, I was raised in the Methodist Church, I don’t go out of way to attack the Christian Church like a Christopher Hitchens (unless they do something stupid, in which I may riff on it […]

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ESPN broadcaster Bob Griese has been suspended one week for a remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya. During last Saturday’s broadcast of the Minnesota-Ohio State, a graphic was shown listing the top five drivers in NASCAR’s points race. Fellow analyst Chris Spielman asked where was Montoya, who is Colombian. Griese replied he […]

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Many times, especially now as I get older, there are people, books, music, that are popular but I either don’t like it/them, or, more often, I haven’t even heard of them/listened to their music/watched their television show or movie. It’s part of no longer being hip or “cutting edge.” This is natural, and I’ve more […]

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This is what “Reality TV” hath wrought. The hours of coverage of the balloon flying over the central US reportedly with a young boy inside shows us what kind of voyeurs Americans have become. Instead of taking time to follow health care reform; or reports over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Americans were concerned […]

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The documentary “The Corporation” shows that one of the weaknesses of American jurisprudence is the ability of corporations to act as “individuals” in a legal sense. As such, the government can’t give corporations the “death penalty” if they continually break the law, pollute, etc. Unfortunately, corporations can suffer the same “sins” of hubris, and pride […]

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Usually, I have good reason to hate a sports team. The teams that appear at the top of this site are either traditional rivals of my favorite teams (Packers, Indians), or have “traditions” or fans that are so obnoxious, that they deserve to be hated (Notre Dame). I can’t say that I have ever rooted […]

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