Alan's Commentaries - Page 2 of 15

AN INTERRUPTED BONANZA

Last Sunday morning, I was home lamenting the one shot I should have made before I lost a golf tournament… by one point. After breakfast, I turned on a rerun of Bonanza, a show…

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THE CUBS, AS ALWAYS

Note – written in mid-March, before the season started. It was the English poet Alexander Pope who penned the words, “Hope springs eternal,” back in 1732—one hundred fourteen years before the New York…

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MEANWHILE…

Keeping up with the news these days can feel a bit like drinking from a fire hose. One of the latest examples involves testimony before the House Oversight Committee concerning Jeffrey Epstein —…

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STILL THE SAME…

Just back from vacation, I looked over the headlines to see what I missed. Turns out—quite a lot. Both House and Senate Democrats tried to rein in President Trump’s war powers over Operation…

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OUTRAGE IS SO MUCH EASIER

I was on vacation with friends when the U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran happened, which was inconvenient because I was trying to avoid the news. Normally, on vacation I treat current events the way I…

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