I was taught that war was bad, but sometimes necessary, and eventually it ended. The latter two concepts seem to no longer apply.
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Ranking Every Year of Your Life
I was born in 1973. Here’s how that’s gone so far.
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The Compound in New Albany
Yesterday the Washington Post told the story of Maria Farmer, an artist who was commissioned by the disgraced and deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein to do some paintings in the mid-1990s. In reality, Farmer alleges, Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell used the opportunity to sexually assault her while she was held virtual prisoner in […]
Read more9/11 and Modern Memory
My kids are studying 9/11 in school. Yesterday my son was talking about it and described a video they watched featuring victims, family members of victims, and witnesses as “old people talking about 9/11.” He spoke of it in the same terms as we might’ve talked about History Channel shows featuring World War II veterans. […]
Read moreJim Bouton: The Patron Saint for Those Who Chafe
Baseball and literary legend Jim Bouton died today. He was 80. My full story about his life and work can be read over at the baseball site. Now, though, something personal. I have spent most of my life as something of a square peg in a round hole. I moved around a lot when I […]
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33 and Me: Adventures in Genealogy
Fallen nobility, picking the losing side of wars, arbitraging the Black Plague and the other mistakes my family made.
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Sammy Sofferin’s Wonder Bar and Indian Room
A few words on looking for things: When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of […]
Read moreHappy 10th Birthday, HardballTalk!
The website I write for a living — HardballTalk at NBC Sports — is ten years old today. The longest I ever held any other job was five and a half years. I only practiced law, in total, for eleven years. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
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Heroes
I do not believe that my best days are behind me. I stopped believing that on August 3, 2006.
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