Larry Thornberry
I see the lineup card for the meeting between Don Jr. and Svetlana Russki has gotten longer yet again. By the…
In Monday’s NYT there is yet another article about the supposedly new discovery, complete with new, abstract, and techie-sounding words, of…
MLB Network’s Prime 9, the baseball network’s program that rates the best of baseball in just about every conceivable category, chose Casey Stengel as “baseball’s greatest character” in 2009. It was a good choice, though there was tough competition for the honor, and one of the beauties of baseball is it can produce endless talk (I hesitate to say arguments) about who the greatest (or worst) this or that is or was. In this case, what about Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, Jimmy Piersall, Bob Uecker, Rocky Bridges?
Speaking of the All-Star break, it’s time for that annual interruption of the everydayness of real baseball for an exhibition…
Just when you thought Colin Kaepernick couldn’t get more over-the-top in dissing the country that has made him a wealthy…
“When we lost Saipan, hell was upon us,” Fleet Admiral Osami Nagano, supreme naval adviser to the Emperor, said. Vice Admiral Shigeyosh Miwa, commander of the Japanese submarine force that attacked Pearl Harbor, was even more precise after the war: “Our war was lost with the loss of Saipan. It meant that the United States could cut off our shipping and attack our homeland.”
Full disclosure up front: I don’t understand British politics. I don’t think many Americans do. Understanding our own is elusive…
In fairness to potential buyers of Language of the Spirit, Jan Swafford does not reveal why classical music is, or at least can be for those open to it, the language of our spirit. In fairness to Swafford, it’s doubtful that anyone could, so mysterious yet accessible is our greatest music. Instrumental music is, after all, a non-verbal art. The sounds can suggest things. But they can’t say them. Even so, those who’ve heard and loved the music from this tradition have no trouble understanding why it is indeed the language of our spirit.
The rules of engagement are out of whack. They favor the malefactor. And Monday in San Francisco the malefactor was…
My sources in Missoula have read me portions of the Montana GOP’s secret campaign manual. The top three electoral principles…
