Finally, Joe Biden has hit upon a winning formula to buoy his sinking approval ratings: Get COVID not once, but twice. The 79-year-old president – and the most unpopular president in modern history – tested positive for the virus July 21. In that time, he had a few things uncharacteristically go his way. Sen. Joe Manchin suddenly announced he’d vote for the spending bill … [Read more...]
Outlive them all
“I’m black and you’re a Jew. How do you intend to make it in this town?” — Bill Russell to Red Auerbach c. 1956 “I’ll outlive them all,” the legendary Boston Celtics coach replied. Good advice both in the concrete and the abstract. Boston is still flamingly racist. As is the small town called Nevada. Beantown and Mississippi West have just gotten good at euphemism, … [Read more...]
Jim Aiken—First Half
NEVADA FOOTBALL. With the University of Nevada’s first football game less than a month away, the conversation at the weekly Coffee Klatsch turned to a discussion of former great athletes and coaches of the Wolf Pack. My favorite memories were, and always will be, of the legendary coach Jim Aiken. If you have the chance to examine the plaques in the Hall of Fame room located … [Read more...]
Is this you? Dripping and spouting off about drippers
If I were queen of the world I would decree that everything made and sold would last forever. Yes forever. There is no reason that dripper hose and especially the little dripper nozzle things last only a few years or so. Why do I go out every day to check my little drippers only to find that at least one has popped off and the line that is suppose to be saving water is now … [Read more...]
Capital capitulations
D.C. MAYOR UPSET. The current practice of Texas Governor Abbot sending busloads of illegal immigrants to the nation’s capital has Mayor Bowser very upset. The rationale in Texas is that if President Biden continues to ignore the chaotic situation at the border, then a sample of what is happening should be brought to Biden’s doorstep in the hope that the president will finally … [Read more...]
How to live forever
In the future, every single thing we see on the Internet is going to be fake. Thus spake a major high tech investor on the PBS Newshour last Saturday. Early warning avatars surround us. On the smartphone application TikTok, you can make yourself dance like a cartoon or modify your body to look like JLo or The Rock. Or both. (Aargh!) Harmless? Hardly. It means that Donald … [Read more...]
Question for the ages: Is Biden too old to be president?
How old is “too old” to be president of the United States? Joe Biden is the oldest president in American history. If he runs for a second term, he’d be 86 when he’s done. Constitutionally, of course, there’s no age that’s “too old.” Plenty of people function well in advanced age. For example, when I was 40 (and a fair golfer, I might add), I got my clocked clean in match … [Read more...]
Is this you? The Movies we Choose
Life is so full of choices that sometimes I find myself ducking decisions instead of making them. Movies are a great ample example of this. Not long ago I read a funny thing. It referred to people who get to a certain age who happily are driving down a highway listening to music loudly as to drown out the cars and other things. Then when they get to their exit and they begin to … [Read more...]