Every Picture Tells a Story: Yankee Stadium, New York (1979)

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
YANKEE STADIUM (NEW YORK, NY) — 1979

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
YANKEE STADIUM (NEW YORK, NY) — 1979

TRUMP’S GHASTLY BLAME GAME
After watching a despicable rambler slinging countless lies and heaping unsubstantiated blame onto all of his political opponents while dead bodies are still being pulled out of the Potomac River, I cannot come up with the proper sentiment to express the ghastly horror of what we all just saw and heard from such a little man so consumed by pettiness and brimming with revenge. What crass stupidity. What inhumanity. What deliberate cruelty.
Am I surprised? No. Am I shocked? No. This is precisely what was expected, and there’s going to be lots more of it yet to endure.
Here, I’ll quote from someone else who says it best:
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EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
ROSECROFT RACEWAY — OXON HILL, MD (1985)
Most gamblers have at least one lapse of degeneracy, unless our condition is permanent.
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EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY:
TURKISH EMBASSY — WASHINGTON, DC (1996)
Today, the Turkish national elections are happening. This seems like a good day to remember old times. Though he’s been popular for many years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan now faces a tough re-election. Erdogan is also scheduled to visit the United States next month, which should be interesting.
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Preface: My writing career is a salvage yard of wrecks and restorations, with lots of discarded junk and half-finished projects, mixed in with a few classics. One unfinished project I never hope to complete is reading and then writing about the books I love. Today is Chapter 2 of a what I’ll call “a new re-discovery,” pulling books from my shelves that were vitally important to me, along with some explanation as to why they had a strong influence upon my life.
TRAVELING: THREE MONTHS ON THE NBA ROAD
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