I work all day on an amazingly slim laptop computer that is maybe half as heavy my first computer. (That was a Commodore 64, which looked a whole lot like a fat keyboard. It had a separate disc drive — big ol’ floppy disc — and the whole shebang was hooked up to a small black-and-white TV. I had a… Read More I miss my Walkman
Some quickie thoughts to finish up the NBA season. And remember, a list is just a column without transitions: Anderson Varejao: That poor son of a gun. Spent 12+ years with the hapless Cavaliers, including 31 games earlier this season. Traded away, lands with the defending champion Warriors … who lose to the Cavaliers in… Read More That’s a wrap
I’ve been wanting to write something about guns and gun violence in America, so when some deranged zealot got loose in Orlando, I sat down and knocked out a quick post. Before I could punch “Publish,” though, I ran nose-first into the enemy of all quick posts. I started thinking. Define all, delete. Dammit. This is a… Read More Getting guns right
This might be a little high on the hyperbole scale … I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office. She’s got the courage, the compassion, and the heart to get the job done. I have seen her judgment, I have seen her toughness up close. — Barack Obama … but,… Read More Hillary
A few quick thoughts before we wander too far into these NBA Finals. Remember, a list is just a column without transitions: 1.) This seems perhaps too simplistic to point out, but I’m going to do it anyway: These two teams are playing very different games. That shouldn’t be surprising because Golden State, up 1-0 in… Read More The Finals: Now and then
We got things to catch up on here, and not a lot of time to do it. So here are a few quickies just to make me feel a little less guilty for leaving the blog so blank for so long. Sorry, blog. I’ll go longer on some of these later … Politics Clinton and… Read More Quickies
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