With Halloween rapidly approaching I want to get out word that if I show up at your house do not be frightened. You see I am a liberal but it is hard to tell by appearance.
Let me tell you a little something about liberals like me so you can be assured I will not steal [...]

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One of my best friends around here has been a hockey mom for well more than a decade and for the past two years has pulled double duty with her other son as a lacrosse mom.
But right now I am so ashamed of her and for her that I feel I need to hide her [...]

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It takes a lot to distract me from the baseball playoffs.  For me there are only two seasons a year, baseball season and winter.  But I was distracted last night as Tampa Bay (Tampa Bay!) throttled the Red Sox in game three of the ALCS.
A feature article in this week’s (10/20) Time Magazine is called [...]

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Here are my random thoughts the morning after the second Presidential debate.
1.  The most important number from all of the instant polling was the question of “who was most likable?” Obama won that one in a landslide.   Wow!  A likable black guy.  What is next, a likable Mexican?
2.  After last night maybe McCain won’t keep [...]

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Some of my friends who are Chicago White Sox fans are just a couple of steps short of gloating today.  Sure the Sox got knocked out of the playoffs by the young, good and inspired Tampa Bay Rays but at least THEY won a game.  The Cubs however did not and did not come close.
I [...]

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Before I get to the matter at hand (saving America) I have a prediction for tonight’s Vice-Presidential Debate.  Her handlers know their best chance to grab the headline for Sarah Palin is to have given her one of those gotcha moments.  You know, like “where’s the beef.”  Of course those moments mean nothing .  It [...]

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I met Paul Newman once.  It was really ugly.  It was 1968 and I was a pup reporter and Newman came to South Bend to campaign for Senator Eugene McCarthy.  That was the last time before this year the Indiana Primary meant squat in the nominating process.
After I interviewed both of them we followed along [...]

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