Read from the American Conservative: “Iowa is the heart of corn and soybean country. These two heavily subsidized crops make up the lions share of American agricultural production – and they’re pretty much inedible for the farmers who grow them, as well as for their surrounding communities. As Michael Pollan writes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, […]
Golf Maverick
Maverick McNealy is the son of Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy. Sun Micro was acquired in 2010 by Oracle for a cool $7.4 billion. But you would never know it by the way McNealy and his wife Susan have raised their four children. “Despite the family’s wealth, the boys slept in one room with four […]
The Realities of War and Human Evil—70 Years Later
Today, May 8, marks the 70th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Read here from Gerald Steinacher a review of German novelist and archivist Walter Kempowski’s Swansong 1945. The majority of Germans wanted only to leave the past behind in the 1950s and ’60s. But Kempowski insisted on asking uncomfortable questions about the […]
Sage Advice to Tom Brady from Bill and Hill
When Tom Brady was asked whether he had cheated, he answered honestly, “I don’t believe so. I feel like I’ve always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules.” Thanks to the Clintons, the WSJ’s Allysia’s Finley has a perfect game plan for Tom. Also, nice job stonewalling Ted Wells, […]
Pedro Martinez: Born to Pitch
You were never in doubt who was in charge when Pedro Martinez took to the mound for the Boston Red Sox. A review of his memoir in the WSJ: In “Pedro,” Mr. Martinez’s memoir written with longtime Boston Herald baseball writerMichael Silverman, we learn that Mr. Martinez was fueled by rage. He hated the many scouts, […]
RIP Paris Based Antiwar Correspondent William Pfaff
Scott McConnell tells readers in theamericanconservative.com, “There are plenty of smart people who write both columns and books. But Pfaff was unique in excelling at both, as well as being ‘prematurely’ correct on the two biggest American foreign policy disasters of his lifetime, Vietnam and Iraq.” Regarding Pfaff, McConnell writes, “But really nowhere in the […]
NFL Draft: How’d Your Team Do?
You get the last 25-years of first-round picks and their bust rates courtesy of NFL analyst Brad Gagnon. This isn’t the final word on your team’s first-round pick(s) by any means. But it does provide the risk of drafting certain positions over the last 25-years. As you can see RBs and QBs top the list. […]
NFL Draft Round #1
NFL Draft: Jaguars, Redskins, Jets, Browns and Pats score big. Bucs and Titans choke! I project that #1 pick Jameis Winston and #2 pick Marcus Mariota will be NFL busts.
Patriots Draft Baby Wilfork
Congratulations to my New England Patriots for addressing their defensive line problems. A huge hole was created up-front by the departure of long-time favorite Vincent Wilfork. And so with their first round draft pick, in the 2015 NFL draft, the Patriots selected 6-foot-2, 320 pounder Malcom Brown. “I’m not sure you can do better than getting my No. […]
RIP Anne-Claude Leflaive
In a recent trip to Beaune, France, Burgundy’s wine capital, I was able to buy one bottle of a wine shop’s three-bottle annual allotment of Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet. Anne-Claude Leflaive was widely celebrated as the best maker of white wines in the world. She was 59.
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