Eighty plus one: The good news

Posted on August 1, 2018

& Well, yesterday I was 80. Today I’m 80 plus one, filled with the memory of fine food and drink and felicitations from a flurry of fine friends who dropped by to celebrate the occasion and sent word via ancient means of communication – the mail, the telephone and even a few smoke signals. The nice thing about the modern […]

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Mr. President, please help restore our trust. Release the JFK assassination records. All of them.

Posted on July 25, 2017July 26, 2017

After a half-century of wondering and a quarter-century of waiting for valid answers, we now have the chance to discover what really happened in Dallas 54 years ago. The President can help. He probably needs a push, from you.

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Protected: An Old Gringo’s Excellent Adventure

Posted on May 29, 2017June 1, 2017

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FAKE NEWS, Fixed. (To a degree…)

Posted on April 11, 2017April 22, 2017

Found, deep in the musty records of the University of Colorado, the truth about a 50-year-old fib.

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“Mr. Seemons. He was a good man.”

Posted on January 25, 2017February 1, 2017

Another good man gone.

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Carl Miller – A sunny friend, young and old.

Posted on August 20, 2016August 20, 2016

The “You’re Older” trophy has found a permanent home.

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Remembering the Bear and the Butterfly

Posted on June 7, 2016August 14, 2017

Donald Trump could have gotten a few pointers from a kid named Cassius

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Another cowboy gone. We enjoyed him.

Posted on December 7, 2014March 9, 2015

It was Ronnie Patton’s kind of funeral. Just too damn bad it had to be his.

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The summit of sport? Bottom of the ninth, of course

Posted on October 31, 2014December 9, 2014

And now it begins: Should Gordon have gone for home? The argument will never end. Nor, we should hope, will the excitement of World Series baseball.

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Israeli Exodus Numero II: Fanciful answer?
Too bad we can’t ask Sammy

Posted on October 21, 2014October 21, 2014

“Travelers along the Mediterranean-to-Jerusalem corridor could stop, drop a quarter in a telescope and watch the Arabs fighting each other. That show would go on forever, because that’s what Arabs do: fight each other. Back in Baja’s garden of Eban, it would be almost Biblical.”

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