So I went out last night after the Crooner’s Lounge closed and happened to pass by my voting drop-box. Curious in the wake of the Justice Department’s decision to insure election integrity […]
It’s tough being a monitor
It’s now time for 6 … and 7
OK, hipsters … 6 7. As in 6, followed by 7. If you don’t know what that is, it’s the latest middle school inside joke that’s spreading through the nation. We only […]
It’s Shohei Ohtani’s world now
The World Series is right around the corner, but no matter what happens – despite the likelihood of a Dodger victory – nothing in the 2025 Fall Classic is going to eclipse […]
Rainy day pains, pleasures
Tuesday’s rain reminded me how far we in West Orange County have come in taming Mother Nature’s moods …. and how far we have to go. Many Orange County cities developed from […]
Where have you gone, Connie?
Don Alexander, who wrote a weekly sports column for the old Garden Grove Journal, once said that October was the best time for a sports fan. At the same time, more or […]
Those old ‘haunted houses’
In the opening of the greatest Halloween story ever, “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” Ray Bradbury writes, “First of all it was October, a rare month for boys … But one strange […]
We asked too much of Ron
Gonna miss you, Ron. But not as much as I hoped I would. As you probably know, Ron Washington has been fired from his job as field manager of the Los Angeles […]
Put a soldier on your block
The latest unique initiative by The White House involved calling the nation’s military leaders to a meeting in Virginia to –among other things – tell the generals and admirals to get ready […]
Can we say ‘kill the robot’ ump?
One of the fast-disappearing charms of baseball is its tolerance of quirkiness. Some of that resistance to rigid conformity will disappear as Major League Baseball in 2026 employs the Automatic Ball/Strike system […]
Honess! I was a teenage (and somewhat older) quack
Not since James Watt, secretary of the interior in the Eighties, shrugged his shoulders about the environment because he believed that the world was going to end soon anyway, has the U.S. […]
