Sports Betting Before the Internet
Read MoreThe Internet changed everything — including sports betting. Let’s take a look back at “the bad old days” when sports handicapping was like the wild west.
As Happy as We Want to Be
Something seemingly insignificant happened today at Starbucks Coffee, which actually ended up leaving quite an impression on me. I’d like to tell you about it.
Read More“Thoughts and Prayers” Have Become Beneath Our Contempt
Praying for the victims, their families & the San Bernardino first responders in the wake of this tragic shooting.
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 2, 2015
Yesterday, there was another mass shooting in America.
That was the 355th murderous tirade this year, a rate of more than one mass shooting per day. More than 600 innocents have been killed by guns, and 1,620 seriously injured. That’s in addition to the tens of thousands of gun accidents, domestic altercations, and countless other tragedies which have involved the misuse of firearms.
Is this “America’s exceptionalism?”
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Desperation Time (Minnesota Vikings +3)
Standing Tall in the Darkness (Movie Review: “Spotlight”)
Read MoreMost mornings between 1993 and 2000, I walked uptown from the Washington metro to my workplace on Massachusetts Avenue, along what’s fashionably referred to as “Embassy Row.”
A few blocks from DuPont Circle, a lonely-looking man used to stand outside on the sidewalk and silently protest. Rain, shine, or snow, he came every morning. He usually held a sign, sometimes two — one in each hand. Occasionally, he handed out flyers on which something was printed and written, although few if any people on the sidewalk stopped long enough to take one. I passed him by frequently. I never took one.
Capitalism’s Hamster Wheel Spinning Out of Control
If and when the chronicle of capitalism’s decline and ultimate demise gets written, the ideal starting point as to why the fall happened would be today’s grotesque gargoyle of greed — better known as “Black Friday.”
Read MoreMemories of Thanksgiving Day With the Dallas Cowboys at Texas Stadium
Read MoreMemories of being a Dallas fan with season tickets in the glory years of the 1970s when the Cowboys were “America’s Team.”
Ten Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Actor Gene Hackman
Read MoreWe tend to gloss over the Gene Hackman’s of our society, those rough-around-the-edges simple soldiers of the stage and silver screen who weren’t and aren’t particularly pretty nor scandalous — the good guy artisans who stuck to their craft, always performing their best, staying out of trouble, and standing to the side while the more famous and glamorous get all the attention.
My NFL Pick of the Year (Bailout Special)
Start Addressing Me as “Colonel Nolan Dalla”
Read MoreListen up. I want everyone to start addressing me as “Colonel Nolan Dalla.”
Today, by official proclamation of Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, I was given that state’s highest honor, the designation as a full-fledged “Colonel.” Thanks to Gov. Steve Beshear, whom I’m pleased to find out is a Democrat. Receiving this award from a Republican might have been awkward.
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