Goooooooal!!!!!

by | Jul 17, 2010 | 0 comments

Only just now has enough time passed that I can post this long awaited piece on the World Cup 2010.  Well, it’s really not exactly about the World Cup, it’s more about soccer (football) in general.  How, you might ask, do I know that enough time has passed?  Easy….I no longer can remember who won.  Actually I did remember that the Netherlands was in the final match, but I couldn’t remember their opponent.  You, of course, remember that it was Spain who won by the typical score of one to nothing or one nil if you prefer the British articulation.  And that’s part of the story. There are dramatically opposing positions on the relevance of an activity that...

The Last Words

by | Jul 12, 2010 | 0 comments

Those of you who know me well know that in the last several years I have developed what might be called a morbid interest in obituaries. Get it….morbid…..obituaries.  Sure you did.  But I have, and I’ve come by this interest honestly not morbidly.  Let me tell you why. Some time ago I was researching a piece that about military veterans of WWII.  This research uncovered the fact that soon the last veteran will have died.  As a result of that disconcerting bit of news, I started to look for obituaries of these veterans in the Dallas Morning News and the New York Times….the only two daily news publications that I can bear to read on a regular...