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There is a price for our dalliances with these presidential chuckleheads …

August 17, 2011
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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...

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Nothing left to save on the Congressional Titanic …

August 10, 2011
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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...

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Moneyball should test Brad Pitt’s star power …

August 3, 2011
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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...

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The unconceded election …. No,not that one

July 26, 2011
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The putrid level of partisanship that we see in political life in 2011 and now seemingly threatens to undermine our national well=being and perhaps the global economy, traces its tawdry roots back to those first days of November in 1992 when Bill Clinton snuck up on a whole country in general and a hapless Republican Party in particular. They were alternately stunned, offended and enraged that it could have happened. They couldn’t believe it, so they didn’t believe it. Still don’t,

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...

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Tea Party charlatans give me a royal pain …

July 21, 2011
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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...

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Curt Flood story just broke my heart … again

July 19, 2011
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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...

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