Yankee great Yogi Berra, a humble and wise man, once said, “I really didn’t say everything I said.” One thing Berra did say was “It ain’t over til it’s over.” It’s on his plaque in Yankee Stadium.
The plaque also calls Berra a “legendary Yankee.” While it is true that he is one of the greatest [...]
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2010 Mission Accomplished Awards
03-Mar-102020 Hindsight
17-Feb-10It’s been ten years since the historic winter of 2010. Much has changed since then. Now seems like a good time to look back and see if there’s anything left to learn from what happened.
It all started with the snowstorms that hit the east coast of the United States in February. The most snow Washington, [...]
Groundhog Day
02-Feb-10I don’t care what the groundhog said;
There’s six more weeks of winter ahead.
Groundhogs don’t have calendars or jobs, so they don’t know that weeks have seven days or when baseball players fly south for spring training.
People have much bigger brains than groundhogs. Our brains are too big, and sometimes that gets us in trouble.
We have [...]
Words Fail
20-Jan-10I see two things in the pictures coming out of Haiti over the past week, and they contradict each other.
The first thing is the resilience of humans confronted with overwhelming adversity. Haiti is one of the poorest nations in the world. More than 80% of the population was already living in poverty before this disaster. [...]
Oh No More
06-Jan-10Let’s start the second decade of the third millennium with some things you might find confusing, pointless, or mildly controversial.
The Tennessee Titans lost Super Bowl XXXIV in January 2000 when wide receiver Kevin Dyson was tackled one yard short of the goal line as time expired. I mention this because January 2000 was one year [...]
