The least improbable feature of Bernie Sanders campaign to become President is that, if elected, he would be 80 years old when he takes the oath of office. But, then, he is not only old, he is a socialist and…
There is much to recommend the film They Shall Not Grow Old, which allows the viewer to imagine with some specificity just what life must have been like in the trenches of the Western Front, an ordeal that still haunts…
President Trump’s State of the Union address has now been appraised by the various partisans and commentators, and his supporters are claiming a big win. The polls look good and even some of the President’s critics are conceding that he…
Years ago, a reporter asked a Dallas Cowboys running back something about the Super Bowl calling it “the ultimate game.” “Well,” Duane Thomas replied, “if it is the ‘ultimate game,’ then how come they’re going to be playing it again,…
The National Football League had a couple of games scheduled for Christmas Day but I couldn’t watch them. Couldn’t, even if I had wanted to. And I didn’t. We were visiting my daughter on her farm. She had just taken…
After several centuries of debate, we still do not know how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. But football philosophers do know what constitutes a “catch” in the National Football League. Here is Al Riveron, Senior…
None of the players in this football game could have made it in the NFL. They were all amateurs in the truest sense of that corrupted word. But, then, when it comes to football they have bigger fish to fry….
It was, once upon a time, a big deal to be named Time magazine’s “Man of the Year.” Or, in more recent times… Person of the Year. What Time is after, as it self-proclaims, is that singular human who has…
Vice President (but not for much longer) Joe Biden recently advised President-Elect (likewise) Donald Trump to “grow up.” Call it “constructive criticism.” The suggestion came in response to something that Trump had tweeted. As everyone knows, our next President is…
Who knows if it is fake or not. And eventually that question will mutate into “who cares?” In some ways, it already has. As Jack Shafer wrote at Politico, the day after Buzzfeed published the “secret” dossier: And even if…