One person who won't have a spot in my Dream Foursome, infinitely expandable as it might be, is Kellyanne Conway. There are good and obvious reasons why not, the biggest being she's smug and insufferable and the apologist for the biggest dickhead in American presidential history. She also … [Read more...]
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Check-in: Craig Foster
There's been some news in the news lately, you might have noticed. Like, we had an election, and I could stop right there, but then there's the Tiger Woods re-entry into competitive golf, and it got me thinking I needed somebody to tell me how I ought to be thinking about what I'm thinking … [Read more...]
A post in which we are not cynical
It felt so good, so positive, so un-political, and while this whole week I’ve felt like crying every day, this day it felt like the tears were for good reasons, not because an idiot racist hater was elected president of the country I live in. On Saturday afternoon I went to watch a high school … [Read more...]
An American in Calgary
At some point all the nastiness will be over and we’ll be glad of it, at least until the day we’ll wish it was just politics again. Because the election won’t end well, we know that, and too soon will come the actual governing, and we'll have to live with who we got, and that can only mean cruel … [Read more...]
Reno edition
It's a night when I might as well feel good about things because the bills that are trailing me won't catch up until, like, Tuesday and my week's work in Reno is done and the Cubs won, Cubs won, and the bar in the Silver Legacy is perfectly happy to reward me for being a good hard-working American … [Read more...]
Beware the coming storm
It's when something resonates for no known reason, hits a target it could never have been aiming at, from a source you couldn't have begun to see coming, that we make late-night joinings in our jerry-rigged wiring and we want to say, "See? That's what I mean. Why didn't I say that?" It … [Read more...]
Clevenger: The tools of ignorance
The Seattle Mariners weren't keeping Steve Clevenger in the organization for his offense. He's a career .225 hitter. Like all backup catchers, Clevenger hangs onto a major-league salary because he's good with the mitt, decent at throwing out runners, and smart enough in his handling of pitchers that … [Read more...]
Inbee Park for President
Kellyanne Conway, the Trump adviser, looks like what we used to call a "sharp cookie." I don't have trouble imagining her squinting behind a long-ash butt hanging out the corner of her mouth. Smart, not overly ideological, willing to sell sneaky-shitty politics and not on the … [Read more...]
Is that a bread crust? Will it make me happy?
I can't say I know what a happy yak is supposed to look like, but I think now I'll know an unhappy yak when I see one. I have to think happiness, relative to its opposite, is far outside the existential ruminations of the yak, and the wildebeest, too, which is what I thought all those yaks … [Read more...]
Required from us a song
I took a break from live major sporting competition on my television set this just-past weekend, and I can only wonder why. OK, I know why, but in the sober light of Monday the reasons, next to what I missed out on, seem small. Family time, with my girls, and golf with my friends … that’s about … [Read more...]
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