It’s a small thing but illuminating. Well, maybe not a small thing at all.
“The Rays are 20 games over .500 for the first time in franchise history (52-32). Last season after 84 games, they were 18 under .500.” So says the Boston Globe. So says everyone. They’re wrong, of course.
The Rays are not at all [...]
What’s the beef with performance enhancing substances?
Oh, we hear of the deeeeeep concern for the health of the athletes. We hear, too, about the true anxiety over youngsters polluting their bodies with harsh consequences exactly as if they were adults. We hear, as well, that such things just aren’t natural.
Mostly, we hear and believe that [...]
What kind of chump state do I live in?
The Drug Enforcement Administration has to show us up as a bunch of pip-squeaks. Here we are the richest state in the Union and all they can come up with is a few measly bucks!
The DEA publishes today in the Wall Street Journal a vast list of [...]
Here’s a tip of the hat to President Bush for pulling off the North Korea nuclear success.
Bush did it right: he was firm yet not provocative; he used diplomacy rather than brute force; he worked with others to get things done rather than resorting the failed Cowboy Diplomacy that so seldom works; he was patient [...]
Just wondering: Why do we care what the Founders thought?
Not at all in any offfense at the Supreme Court’s ruling on guns, but I wonder why a Constitution written 200 years ago must be so faithfully followed as if there had been no changes, no developments, no new wisdoms whatever since those ancients penned things.
We have our lives decided [...]
Seeing that Monet’s dismal “Le Bassin aux Nymphéas” has just sold for $80.4 million, I figure it’s finally time for me to sell my own Monet, “La Maison du Chat.”
It’s been in the family for years. Monet used to come around and offer to paint ceilings and things for my grandparents. He was a sad [...]
Some nice thoughts on my new book:
“Here’s good news for fans of Denis Horgan, former Courant columnist.
“Last year, Horgan charmed readers with his collection of essays called, “Flotsam” A
Life in Debris.” Now he’s back with a novel that examines the dangerous intersection
where religion, politics and the media meet.
“The Dawn of Days” (Ladder Press, $14.99) asks [...]
It is so obvious that it takes two to tango that it is hard to even imagine a one-person tango.
The Celtics won. The Lakers lost. The news is as obvious as that there are no Celts on the Celtics and no lakes in Los Angeles. But reading the coverage of Tuesday’s NBA triumph in Boston [...]
I don’t know why I hang around with riffraff like you.
You’re hurting my reputation. There’s a slumming affect that we extremely rich people strike but I need to be careful; you’re dragging down my image.
Consider. In the past 48 hours alone I have come into so much money that people like you are, well, rather [...]
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