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 […]

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 […]

Hey, Bob. I live in the part of Nashville that Justin Jones represents (though he is not my representative, his district ends something like 2 streets over,  thanks to an attempt at gerrymandering in the city). The outrage here is quite palpable. The Nashville Metro Council is in charge of appointing Justin Jones’ replacement. Over half […]

Don’t disenfranchise me. It’s one thing to make it harder to vote, it’s quite another to cancel my vote completely and leave me without representation. The day Trump got arraigned someone pointed me to the student protests in Nashville, how come they weren’t all over the news instead of the Former Guy. Even worse, the […]