Be thankful for what you have
Be thankful you can go to work After being off three days last week I was getting ready for work this morning. Yawning, I whined: “It’s Monday. I gotta go to work today”. It was then that my wife, Mrs Larry, commented that “It could be worse, you might not be able to work”. I […]
Is baseball getting too scientific?
Science is getting in the way of baseball When I was a kid carefully attempting late at night to tune in baseball games from St Louis or New York on my AM radio that I rigged to have “stereo” speakers in the headboard of my bed, I would hear Harry Caray or Mel Allen talk […]
Should a business be punished for an owner’s beliefs?
In 2012, Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy, the son of founder Truett Cathy, made a comment in a Southern Baptist publication that the company supports the “biblical definition of a family unit.” That comment and others he made ignited a boycott of the family owned business. ( I work down the road from the original location, […]
Just forget about privacy? Not me.
Is the latest craze app sending your data to the Russians? More importantly, is it sending my data to the Russians? I have quite a few Facebook friends, although I’m not like some people who collect them like baseball cards as if they’re in competition to see who can have the most friends. Most of […]
That’s racist, but I can’t really say that.
I got ito a little argument on Twiter yesterday with someone who stated in a nutshell that a white person wasn’t qualified to say what is racist. That’s like saying that only a fish can define water. or a gentile can’t define antisemitism or the holocaust . Now, I’m not going to get into what […]