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AGING MEN WITH LADY ISSUES

Talk about aging men. Aging men need to listen. Women of a certain age say they’re invisible, that they’ve lost the power of attraction. With Sophia Loren is in the crowd there’s doubt about that. Aging men are different. They’ve lost the same power to attract the attention from the people they used to attract, […]

OLD MAN LEBRON STILL GOT GAME

Old man LeBron not old enough to be old. If you watch sports for life lessons, then watching LeBron is a graduate course. He’s been in the finals for six straight years and two different teams. So we think we know him. And we’re wrong. The only reason LeBron seems old is by the dewy […]

WRITER’S EYE TREATMENT FOR LEBRON JAMES

It’s not pink eye, it’s writer’s eye, and LeBron James lives it everyday. There’s a story about Mark Twain cussing so much that his wife finally took it up. She cussed and cussed to show him what it sounded like, trying to shame him into cleaning up his mouth. Apparently it didn’t work, and he […]

ILLEGAL ORDERS: FOLLOW OR NOT

How illegal orders were explained in the 1970’s Army. The beginning of the All-Volunteer Army came with something extra. New boots needed to know about ‘illegal orders.’ Call it a special understanding to make the Army a more attractive choice. Not more swearing, yelling, smacking, punching, and general ass-kicking. And no more illegal orders. The […]

NORTHWEST TRAIL BLAZERS

Watching this guy play against the Warriors still hurts. What if he was in Portland? But he’s not and neither is the #1 pick his year. I won’t even say his name. The initials work fine. Just GO. Kevin Durant makes his case as a #1 pick in every game, though watching him shake and […]

WHO GETS FOOLED AGAIN? WHO? WHO?

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Baby boomers grew up with The Man. It wasn’t daddy, but daddy knew The Man. Sometimes daddy was on The Man reserve. Who is The Man? It’s the police Man. We saw him at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Man swung a hard […]

TIGARD POLICE EVENT: HOW NOT TO GET SHOT

I got the wife phone call you never want to get. No, not the one where she’s run off to Spain with a gypsy king, or discovered her true self with a Starbucks soothsayer. This phone call: “David, I see nine police cars in front of our house and parked in our driveway. You need […]

SENIOR TRAVELER, DOLLAR RENT A CAR ANGEL, AND BOOMERPDX

Senior traveler gets an assist from Dollar Rent A Car agent. If you’re a senior citizen, or traveled with seniors, you know how it works. Caution is the word of the day. Air travel makes your feet swell. Maybe your entire leg. The airplane bathroom seems like a mile away. Lifting carry on bags into […]

INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN BOOMER

I hear you asking, “What’s a ‘proven’ boomer?” You know what a ‘made man’ is in the Mafia? They’ve taken an assignment from the boss and done good with it. Usually the assignment that makes you a Made Man also makes you a Button Man. You push the button, pull the trigger, you’re a made […]

BABY BOOMER HISTORY: PRESIDENTS SINCE 1946

Baby boomers showed up in 1946, Presidents since 1946. From the drama of the golden baby boomer decade, the psychedelic Sixties, you’d think Nixon was the only president that mattered. Or Lyndon Johnson. But good history fans hark back to Harry Truman in 1946. Harry ‘The Buck Stops Here’ Truman welcomed the first wave of […]