Two Gents' Worth
May 16, 2025
Pop Culture
W.P. Kinsella died the other day at the age of 81, and it’s worth noting because while you may not know who he is, you’ve almost surely seen the results of what he did. Kinsella wrote the novel that was adapted for the iconic movie “Field of Dreams.” He started writing “Shoeless Joe” while he…
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Donald Trump
I’m spending a bit of time in the heart of the American heartland — Ames, Iowa, the home of Iowa State University, where I taught journalism decades ago. For years now, I’ve returned to Ames in the fall — always the best time of year in the Midwest. I visit friends, eat a lot of…
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Well, Hillary Clinton’s very bad weekend just got a whole lot worse, and her campaign for the presidency may have been fatally compromised. By getting sick at the 911 memorial service in New York City on Sunday morning — and by her campaign’s initial claim that she was merely “overheated” — Clinton’s health is now…
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Donald Trump
Yep. Hillary Clinton has just made a deplorable mistake — one that may prove fatal to her run for the White House. By saying that half of Donald Trump’s supporters fall into what she called a “basket of deplorables,” Clinton has violated virtually every rule of campaigning. For one thing, she has denigrated not her…
Read More about Hillary’s “Deplorables”Fresno
I like to walk a lot, and most of the time when I stroll around town, I head back to the Fresno High area where I grew up. I’ll park my car near Hamilton Jr. High and then stroll in any direction that suits my fancy that particular day. It’s not unusual for me to…
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Donald Trump
So here we are, on Labor Day weekend, and the final push is about to begin in this miserable, horrible race for the White House. No one can be sure how this is all going to play out, but there are a few things we know. First, this race is Hillary Clinton’s to lose —…
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Donald Trump
Just hours after trying to make “nice-nice” with Mexico’s president, Donald Trump made it clear — again — on Wednesday night that he doesn’t like illegal immigrants. Trump told an adoring crowd in Phoenix that he’d remove millions of people living in the United States illegally if he becomes president. He said that failure to…
Read More about Trump’s “New” PlanHillary Clinton
What to make of that human mess that is Anthony Weiner, the former Congressman from New York who is apparently unable to stop sending “sexually suggestive” pictures of himself to other women? Well, for starters, his marriage to Huma Abedin — one of Hillary Clinton’s top aides — seems to be over, and justifiably so….
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So Colin Kaepernick — the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who makes no one forget the likes of Joe Montana, Steve Young or John Brodie — has decided to throw even more fuel on the fire he ignited a few days ago when he remained seated during the playing of the national anthem before a football…
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