Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Tucker Carlson

He was working for the man. I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you’re on, that’s not what this is about. This is about the fact that Tucker Carlson was an employee and now he lost his job. As Bob Dylan so famously sang forty years ago, we’ve all gotta serve somebody. So […]

It’s Snowing

And today it reached ninety four degrees in the Coachella Valley. When I lived in Utah, I was stuck in Utah. I could get in my car and drive twelve hours to Los Angeles, but flying was out of the question, and long distance phone calls were expensive. You left town and never heard of […]

Fox/Dominion Settlement

Nothing lives up to the billing anymore. I first noticed this phenomenon in 1974, with Evel Knievel’s Snake River Canyon jump. We heard about it for months, and then the rocket misfired and…I think it was the same day Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. Nixon had resigned, that was momentous, there was talk about a […]

Today At Vail

It was one of the best days of the year. It’s been a good season. 345 inches. 103% of the average, which is 350, but there’s still another week to go. But not only is that a lot of snow, it came early. And that matters. Especially at Vail, where one-third of the ski area […]