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  • How am I Doing with My 2024 Challenges

    How am I Doing with My 2024 Challenges

    Back in early January, I wrote a post that was, in essence, my 2024 resolutions (though I called them “Challenges.”) How am I doing so far? The answer is why I normally don’t do the resolutions thing (or if I do, I keep them to myself). It’s depressing to be reminded that you have failed… Read more

  • The Year of the Tack

    The Year of the Tack

    On a morning from a Bogart movieIn a country where they turn back timeYou go strolling through the crowd like Peter LorreContemplating a crime” – “Year of the Cat” I was listening to this song in Barrio, a bakery and coffee shop I walk to every morning now that I am retired. The owner is… Read more

  • Dave Zirin interviews Bruce Maxwell

    Dave Zirin interviews Bruce Maxwell

    Dave Zirin, author of Welcome to the Terrordome and What’s My Name, Fool?, two books I love about the intersections of sports and politics hosts a podcast called The Edge of Sports which became a multimedia broadcast when The Real News Network, an anti-corporate news source, picked it up looks like a good show. I… Read more

  • Make a Wish–That Fisher Sells

    Make a Wish–That Fisher Sells

    D.A. busts Major League Baseball’s worst owner–again! Read more

  • “Exxon Hates Your Children” (A Skimmed version of my 2015 Spill)

    “Exxon Hates Your Children” (A Skimmed version of my 2015 Spill)

    I posted this on January 25, 2015, but didn’t bother looking at the finished product. It was nothing, but HTML gobbledygook. Here’s a cleaned up version of the original disaster. Read more

  • D. A. Strikes Again

    D. A. Strikes Again

    I keep saying I’ve said my piece about John Fisher and Rob Manfred, but I’ll always share what D.A. has to say about this travesty. Read more