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Ornery Columnist: Snacks In Youth Sports Are Making America SoftSnacks: Are there too many of them? I don’t know—when I look in my pantry, I am often disappointed by how few snacks there are. If you ask me, there should be a lot more snacks around me at all times. Snacks are good is a broadly popular opinion, judging by the contents of aisles four thru six of my...

<i>Denver Post</i> Columnist Fired After Racist Tweet About Indy 500 WinnerA hail-mary apology couldn’t save former ESPN and, now, former Denver Post columnist Terry Frei after the seven-time state sportswriter of the year tweeted his disapproval of Japanese driver Takuma Sato winning yesterday’s Indy 500....

A Few Points About The Quality Of Peggy Noonan's Political AnalysisWhy does Peggy Noonan goad me so? Her softness of tone; her airy sound of literary facility, at least to the ears of those who generally read only policy papers; her friendship with Cesar, at the deli counter. In her own way, she is the right wing version of Thomas Friedman: dangerous because people...

Vital Cultural Activity Of Our Era Is Not Music But Rather Something I Still Participate In, Says Old Guy

“Food is the new music” is a good phrase to memorize for when you get too old to really go to a lot of concerts any more, because that shit happens very late at night....

Taking "Lack Of Context" To Terrifying New Extremes

“Context.” What does it mean? Do we really need it? Is it possible to write an entire, outraged newspaper column without any context at all?...

Peggy Noonan Didn't Watch The Whole Speech

Gentle Peggy Noonan, the medium through which Ronald Reagan’s ghost whispers its sweet nothings into the living world, is fond of the speech of this leader, this “Donald.” At least, the parts she heard. ...

Peggy Noonan Extends Her Sympathy To Those That She Helped To Make Poor

As this year of imprudent surprise comes to an end, Reagan-era porcelain urn Peggy Noonan turns her forgiving gaze to the lessers—they are poor, you see. But why? ...

Real Piece Of Shit Column: Corruption Is Fine

As much as Republicans groaned about Donald Trump, they were always destined to fall in line once he actually had power. They are still falling. ...