Old & Opinionated

March 17, 2025- Monday Happy St. Patrick's Day! I am 70 years old, and I’ve always been a sports fan.  I really wanted to play football in junior high and high school, if not college, but my dad wouldn’t allow it.  I played a lot of pick-up football, baseball and basketball ga mes when I was younger, and I’ve continued to watch and enjoy sports to this day.   Like everything in life, sport is changing.  Sport has become political with men claiming they identify as women and wanting to compete with women rather than me. College sports is now professional sports with athletes being paid to play for colleges.  That has taken away some of my excitement for college sports.  There’s also a lot of stupidity in sports and that i s not necessarily anything new. That was recently on vivid display with the Dallas Mavericks when the general manager, Nico Harrison, traded generational player, Luka Doncic, to the Los Angeles Lakers. The stupid things are that Harr...

  March 8, 2025- Saturday   I’m a slow reader but I really enjoy reading.  I like to read a variety of different things but if there is a book written by John Grisham, I am going to read it. Such is the case with “Framed” by Grish am and co-author Jim McCloskey. This particular book took me longer to read than most books because of the subject matter.  I had to take a few breaks while reading it.   Why? “Framed” is not fictional fare.  It is a compilation of the stories of ten different situations where people were wrongly convicted of crimes.  Horrible crimes.  Cap ital murder crimes. These stories by Grisham and Mcclosky detail these crimes, and it details the utter incompetence of prosecutors and judges.  These st ories depict how pre-determined assumptions served the purposes of these prosecutors and judges and those assumptions were horribly wrong. These stories also show the benefit of having money and how being able to pay for comp...

March 4, 2025- Tuesday The bad side of Donald Trump raised its ugly head this past Friday.  In an Oval Office press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy, the two pres idents along with Vice President J.D. Vance, got into an argument.  Zelenskyy was here to sign an agreement with the U.S., but he started talking about security assurances.  Trump and Vance were not interested in discussing this and they both went after Zelenskyy.   That is where the bully in Donald Trump came out as he repeatedly talked over Zelenskyy and got much louder than the Ukrainian President.  Instead of doing the right thing and politely ending the press conference and continuing the argument out of the view of the media which will definitely side with Zelenskyy, Trump was rude and bullied Zelenskyy.   I think Zelenskyy did not f ully realize who he was dealing with and his command of the English language left him at a big disadvantage in an augment with Tr...