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Posted on January 21, 2018January 21, 2018 by Patrick

The Four Seasons … Of Candy

Californians often lament the absence of seasons. They get chapped about 90-degree January days and Autumn afternoons that aren’t crisp enough. This mainly happens because too many people still consider the seasons as being winter, spring, summer and fall. I long ago stopped viewing them that way and have made candy the focal point of my life so the seasons too me are Candy Hearts, Jelly Beans, Saltwater Taffy and Red Licorice. It’s way sweeter than waiting for leaves to fall or measuring the fuckin’ snowpack.

Posted on January 15, 2018January 8, 2018 by Patrick

The Start of Something Hateful

Twelve U.S. Presidents owned slaves, eight while in office.

This is tough to reconcile. How do liberty, freedom and equality coexist with enslavement? Perhaps it is not to be reconciled. To be sure, it is not to be excused. John Jay Chapman said, “There was never a moment in our history when slavery was not a sleeping serpent. It lay coiled up under the table during the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention …” Another axiom that was often tossed about was that (paraphrasing) slavery was like holding a wolf by the ears, you didn’t like it but you didn’t dare let it go. I call bullshit. What would have happened if someone would have shot the “coiled” snake or released the wolf?

Posted on January 13, 2018January 12, 2018 by Patrick

Gale Sayers, Vince Lombardi And The Glory Days

Fun Facts: Tossing Around The Football

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.

These invisible guys got drafted before Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL draft: Chad Pennington, Giovanni Carmazzi, Chris Redmon, Marc Bulger, Tee Martin, Spurgeon Wynn.
Green Bay, Wisconsin is one of the most Catholic regions in the nation. In Lombardi’s day, there were two Catholic high schools, ten Catholic elementary schools, sixteen churches, forty-two-weekday masses and ninety-four masses on Sunday with the first being at 4:30AM.