The Car Judge

I believe we should judge the people, places and things around us at every turn. Life is funner if you judge everything, if you rank and categorize and assemble top ten lists at the drop of a hat. Who knows, maybe a fairly serious fight will break out? I’m not talking about good-person, bad-person judgment; not heaven or hell judgment, that’s above my pay grade. I’m talking about totally superficial, spur-of-the-moment, painting-people-with-a-broad-brush judgment. In this nation we need to stop making assumptions about people based on race, creed and color and start speculating on what people are like based solely on the type of car they drive.

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Living With Snoopy

Well, I don’t actually live with him, I mean, I would, but I don’t think he has room … What I mean to say is that I kinda have a lot of Snoopy stuff around, in every room, and I’ve read lots of comics and some books and there are calendars and lunch pails and rubber soap dishes from fifty years ago that cost five bucks and while we don’t technically live together I think we understand each other and so we sorta live in the same metaphysical space.

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Can James Madison Play Football? You Should Have Seen Him Play Statesman.

I see where ESPN is taking college gameday to Harrisonburg, Virginia, and James Madison University. The Dukes, of course, are the defending FCS college football champions and are top-ranked and undefeated this year, so like everyone else, I’m into their Saturday Colonial Athletic Association battle with Villanova. But I’m even more stoked because the game gives me the chance to talk about one of my favorite subjects – James Madison the president. read more