Question: How low can you go? Additional question: When was the last time a Major League baseball team played so many games that so closely resembled World Cup soccer matches? Another question: Who wants to weigh in on this team’s chances of finishing above .500? One final question: What the hell? And, further food for … Read more
I apologize for the mess, Reverend, but I wasn’t expecting company. Things have gone to hell around here since Delmar moved into that old pop-up camper out back –says he got tired of captivity, as if that filthy camper he bought on eBay is anything but an even smaller cage. That’s the thing about Delmar, … Read more
Brownback–isn’t that a species of great ape? Today, I take back everything I’ve said about David Brooks of the NY Times. This is a howler. If you’ve spent any time at all listening to the confirmation hearings for John Roberts, you’ll like this. The only thing funnier is listening to Kansas Senator Sam Brownback’s performance … Read more
I’ll tell you exactly what I saw: they had the mediocre man trussed in a wheelbarrow and they rolled him out into the middle of the street and blew him up. He was round, agitated, and full of guts, and he babbled nervously right up until the moment when they set off the detonator. I … Read more
An anonymous interlocutor took me to task last week for crying about the FEMA and Army types who wouldn’t let reporters ride along to document the search for the dead in New Orleans. Well, the reporters have their own rides now, but it seems the Army didn’t get the message about letting reporters do their … Read more
I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess … Read more
One Sunday near the end of his days the old preacher stood up before his dwindled congregation, and as had been the case so often in recent years he circled and paced in his mind for the familiar words that were still permanently lodged there from long repetition and which were now accessible to him … Read more
The Minnesota State High School League has banned “mid-riff baring” cheerleading uniforms, and I feel conflicted–and not because I’m a pervert. This is one of those touchy issues where I see both sides of the arguent. Despite the “we’re all in this together” vibe of the announcement, I am pretty confident that any official, affirmative … Read more
If you vote for monkeys, you’re going to get bananas I had an interesting dinner with one of my Republican friends last night. (Yes, I do have them.) Of course, the conversation eventually turned to New Orleans and Bush and his comment “Nobody could have forseen the levees would fail.” Since it’s been clear for … Read more