They’re clichés for a reason
Martin Maldonado does something that I’ve never seen before, but I’ve heard it around baseball games forever: he hit the cover off the ball. No kidding.
Archive of entries posted on August 2015
It’s so hot I could get this angry
Here’s the explanation, if you don’t remember it. It was July 24, 1983.
Brown-skinned people go home!
That is Donald Trump’s message, and some of his fellow candidates for the Republican nomination for President are echoing him. As a Democrat, I couldn’t be more pleased. Hillary or Bernie will still have to work hard to gain the votes of our Hispanic/Latino fellow citizens, but it doesn’t hurt when your opposition party unleashes …
Hot, humid, nasty
So pretend you’re on a ship to America to survey the boundary lines between Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1763. That line will ultimately be known by your surnames — Mason Dixon. Lyrics.
Loathsome, loathsome, loathsome
I can think of stronger words, but those will have to suffice to describe Mike Huckabee and his Forced-Pregnancy with Capitals F & P views. Read and retch. A 10-year-old Paraguayan girl was raped by her stepfather and became pregnant. Paraguayan law states that all abortions are illegal, no exceptions. When CNN host Dana Bash …
Tributes?
You know you’ve been around a long time when somebody decides there are not only enough of your songs but enough of a market that a tribute album is warranted. That’s what happened to Jackson Browne back in 2014 when this was made. As you might guess, there’s enough for a two-disk album, featuring such …
Jimmy Carter
By now every American within earshot of a radio or within eyesight of a television has heard that Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, announced that he has cancer. Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body. I will be rearranging my schedule …
Bye Bye Hilda
She’s turning west, thankfully. Can we have a little break now? Two in two weeks is worrying.
EPA and the Animas River
The EPA has admitted it screwed up, inadvertently breaching a dam which had been holding up a toxic mess of waste water left over from a century of mine tailings. I’ve been wondering why the owners of the mines which left the stuff behind aren’t responsible for the cleanup that EPA was initiating, and this …
Scott Walker, Puppet
Not just of the Koch Brothers, either. Nope. His first political affiliation was with the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. It’s a lobbying shop which calls itself a charity and is thus deemed tax-exempt. It’s really a front for a group which writes corporate-friendly legislative language and then offers it to its members for …