This is the Greatest and Best Closer in the World…Tribute (Part II: A View From The Top)
Oct02

This is the Greatest and Best Closer in the World…Tribute (Part II: A View From The Top)

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, we learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything is 42. While the characters in the book are perplexed by this abstract response and spend the next several million years searching for the Question, it could be argued, in similarly abstract fashion, that this answer also holds true in the Yankee universe. When the going got tough, the innings drew late, and the...

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An Astute Political Observation
Sep26

An Astute Political Observation

  10:00 PM On a Wednesday It was a weekday evening, and I was watching television. This was nothing out of the ordinary. It was an enjoyable episode of the particular program I was viewing, but again, this was nothing new. In the middle of a scene, a sometimes-reoccurring character made an outlandish assertion about governmental regulation. It was absurd and mostly for laughs, yet simultaneously a microcosm of a played-out...

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Ninjas In Vegas
Sep18

Ninjas In Vegas

  When I was a small child – and I don’t think I’m going out on a limb by saying this statement surely holds true for many other little boys in the late ‘80s to early ‘90s -  two staples of my early television viewing were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Double Dare. The former was a cartoon fantasy turned live-action movie which glorified the ninja and amphibian lifestyles, respectively. The latter was a family gameshow...

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We’ll Be Back With Your Regularly Scheduled Miley Bashing After These Messages
Sep03

We’ll Be Back With Your Regularly Scheduled Miley Bashing After These Messages

I have a confession to make: I watched the VMAs last week. At the time it actually aired. It’s been many years of distancing myself from anything MTV-related, but for a variety of random reasons – mostly due to stumbling upon east-coast reactions before it came on out here – I found myself seated in front of the television as famous teenagers I had never heard of walked the red carpet a few blocks from my wife’s former...

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Urban Camping, Huh?
Aug26

Urban Camping, Huh?

My wife works in home healthcare. In its most basic sense, this profession is exactly what it sounds like: a nurse or a therapist does home visits for patients who have recently been discharged from the hospital. Pretty simple. Things have the potential to get complicated when the whole “walking blindly into a stranger’s home” part gets introduced. You might end up in a standard, single family home. You also might end up in dusty...

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