Like most people caught up in a football game, there’s a tendency to get drawn into the wave of the moment. One team is winning, and the other is losing, and one has the momentum. As a Ravens fan, time has taught me that there is no score that cannot be undermined in the last […]
Beer Today
What better way to ease back in from a blog absence than to talk about beer. I’m going to throw something against the wall and see if it sticks: We’re in peak craft beer. What does that mean? The proliferation of craft beer makers and distributors has reached a point where they will not continue […]
TIR 10/17/18: ‘Facebook Slams Independent Voices With Latest Political Purge’
Facebook Slams Independent Voices With Latest Political Purge Web Publication: Reason, by J.D. Tuccille I read ‘Reason’ content via Facebook. Given recent actions by Facebook, I may not find that or similar content on that site much longer. Three statements spell out significant trouble for free speech: A disturbingly large number of people use Facebook […]
Hello Northeast Reader
Hello Northeast Reader, it’s been awhile; since September 8 as per my check just now. This is about that interval and about the process of writing or not writing these articles. Over the past 30 plus days, I worked on multiple articles and choose not to finish them. Some were nearly finished. Of course, everything […]
Dear Nike
Dear Nike I’m writing to let you know that I’m disturbed by your selection of Colin Kaepernick as the face of Nike and I’m now embarrassed to be seen sporting the Nike ‘swooch’. It’s a shame that you had to go this way, after all, you’re in the business of sports apparel and I happen […]
Funerals
Saturday, a Drudge Report headline said something to the effect that ‘Americans are sickened by the politicized funerals’, those of John McCain and Aretha Franklin. I couldn’t agree more. Both were Trump bash-fests, grand-stand events, headline broadcasters. I don’t know about Franklin but in the case of McCain, it’s just as he wanted. His choreographed […]