Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Hillary 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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Fresno
Oh, my. Can anyone — ANYONE — tell me why the California State Senate has refused to let voters decide whether to keep going on, and off, Daylight Saving Time? The Senate’s vote this week nixed a bill that would have placed a measure on the ballot, asking us to decide whether to dump our…
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Pop Culture
Okay, this is the first, and I hope only, comment I’m going to make about that mess of an American athlete, Ryan Lochte. Thank goodness there was a video recording of what really happened at that little Brazilian gas station. Without it, Lochte and his fellow travelers might have gotten away with the lie about…
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Books
Peggy Noonan is widely and justifiably known for her brilliant series of columns in the Wall Street Journal. She has been writing these columns for the past 15 years, and regular readers have found them to be elegantly written, well thought-out and extraordinarily clear in their messages. Now Noonan has compiled the “best” of her…
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Fresno
It’s hard to believe that summer is almost over in Fresno, but you know the end is near when you see kids returning to school. Of course, school starts earlier than it ever did when I grew up around here. Seems to me we didn’t have to go back to classes until after Labor Day,…
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Donald Trump
We can all see this one coming, can’t we? Our current presidential campaign – the one being waged by two of the most distrusted and disliked major-party candidates in recent memory – is on track to render the eventual winner a failure. It’s a “take no prisoners” campaign – full of personal insults, wild charges,…
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I was glad to hear that Fresno mayor Ashley Swearengin already has a new gig lined up when she leaves office in a few months. Swearengin is going to become the president and CEO of the Central Valley Community Foundation – a local nonprofit clearinghouse for charitable contributions and grants. And I say – good…
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Vin Scully is retiring, and that’s a very big deal, indeed. When I was kid, growing up in Fresno, I loved playing baseball on all those glorious warm summer nights. We’d play wiffleball or hardball or softball – whatever we had on hand – late into the evening – until we couldn’t see anymore. We’d…
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