The "kids" may make us a little uncomfortable, but that may not be a bad thing.
You've seen it happen—a team decides on a youth movement and the results are bad. The knee-jerk fan reaction is "bring back the...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 7, 2019
- 2 min
Donald Trump's legacy may be "he ended racism" by putting an ugly face on it.
Last fall I had the—well let's call it pleasure—of seeing the Queens of the Golden Mask at the the Ivoryton Playhouse here in...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 6, 2019
- 3 min
A shameless president makes one more attempt to reach the bottom
We accept the truth of any State of the Union address at our own risk. Presidents throughout history have used the State of the Union...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 4, 2019
- 2 min
As a purveyor of news, Facebook has the best cat videos.
On Saturday I wrote a fairly lengthy opinion piece on why Virginia's Ralph Northam should not resign the governorship—that indiscretions...
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Chuck Radda
- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
Upon further review...welcome to the perimeter of abhorrence.
Is it moral, ethical, civil, even patriotic, to hate the Patriots? As a life-long Yankees fan I say, yes, definitely. It comes with the...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 31, 2019
- 2 min
I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours...
In Paradise Lost (Relax, honest—there’s no test after nor will you be forced to write a paper.) Let me begin again. In Paradise Lost—in...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 28, 2019
- 2 min
Schools used to be sanctuaries; now they're more like trauma centers
January 28, 2019. If this was a normal school day here’s what occurred: There were 33 incidents involving the threat of weapons. There...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 24, 2019
- 3 min
The land of opportunity is now the land of deprivation and despair.
At the risk of sounding like some old guy whose million discrete thoughts have coalesced into a few platitudes, let me say this: the...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 21, 2019
- 2 min
Ugliness in the Nation's Capital Reflects the Ugliness in the White House
It happened in Washington, D.C. According to some the boys in their red MAGA hats were being harassed and said nothing in return. Others...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 18, 2019
- 2 min
Nature still abhors a vacuum, including the one left by a president.
I can hardly be the only one who has agonized over how our country, in the age of Trump, would fare in a catastrophic event like 9/11,...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 16, 2019
- 2 min
Is this heaven? It might have been until Steve King arrived.
In 1989 I won a National Endowment Grant to study the novel Middlemarch for four weeks at Drake University in DesMoines, Iowa. (My joke...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 14, 2019
- 2 min
If Republicans are fleeing from Trump, we may have to redefine "flee."
This was a headline in Slate magazine on December 19, 2018: Republican Leadership Is Slowly Backing Away From Trump Note the date. It was...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 12, 2019
- 2 min
Spreading and replicating—the virus that is Trump surges ahead.
One-hundred years ago the influenza pandemic, begun a year prior, was winding down. An estimated 675,000 Americans died. Remember that...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 7, 2019
- 1 min
Suggested reading, impeachment fans.
I'd like to use this blog on occasion to point out some other items of interest, and as such...in the Sunday New York Times (1/6/19),...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 7, 2019
- 2 min
Huffing and puffing—just another wolf with a lot of wind.
It does become tiresome after a while, evoking 1984 every time Trump declares anything he says as truth by definition, or evoking Richard...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 4, 2019
- 2 min
It's not so much what you say, it's how. But it's also what.
It happens all the time in the NFL: a player scores a touchdown, then waves a ball in the defender's face, thereby incurring a...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
Events "slightly" farther away have allowed us finally to use the word "awesome"— and mean it.
By now you've all seen the photo. It resembles a snowman that children lost interest in completing, leaving it either limbless or...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 2, 2019
- 3 min
Jakelin Caal and Felipe Gómez Alonzo: just new links in a chain of nationalistic intolerance.
On an evening in March, 1932, a kidnapping occurred. Maybe there were other similar incidents that evening—crimes are seldom discrete—but...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
You can’t enter a new year without undoing all the mistakes you made in the previous one. Forthwith my apologies for the missteps of...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 27, 2018
- 2 min
Concerning Kirstjen Nielsen's so-called concerns.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen on Wednesday called the latest "immigration death,"— this time an 8-year-old Guatemalan...
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