It doesn’t take a genius to understand the risk of playing high school football. But if you need a genius to explain football from top to bottom, ask retired Baltimore Raven John Urschel. He’s enough of a genius. At the old age of twenty six he hung his jock on an […]
HOW HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING PAYS THE BILLS
July 6, 2017 by
No matter how you see the video of President Trump fighting a CNN bobble head, it’s not high school wrestling. It’s not Olympic wrestling. Is it yard wrestling? Not even. Instead it’s a demonstration of what happens when a man finds himself in a situation and wishes he’d been on a high school wrestling team. […]
OREGON DROPOUT TOO HIGH? KGW SAYS YES
May 18, 2017 by
Oregon students drop out of high school more than any other state? Education statistics work to show progress, decline, indifference. You’ve seen those graphs. Chances are good these aren’t dropouts analyzing the data. They are smart people working the numbers. Depending on the point being made, the numbers are the name of the game. […]
BABY BOOMER LIFE QUIZ FOR NOSY MILLENNIALS
April 22, 2017 by
Ask your parents about these life quiz situations Life Quiz 1 Ever made to sit at the childhood dinner table until you finished everything on your plate…or fell asleep in shame? If a millennial asks their parents, and mom and dad say, “No, of course not. We weren’t raised in a gulag,” do a […]
LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT2: BABY BOOMER ERA
March 24, 2017 by
The baby boomer era state of mind. What is there to learn from the baby boomer era? Every passing year the nostalgia grows stronger, but that doesn’t change history. Consider the boomer time line from 1946-1964. The oldest boomers were twenty year olds in 1966. The youngest were twenty in 1984. My cohort […]
THE BOOMER END OF THE SPEEDO CHALLENGE
March 2, 2017 by
Any challenge but the Speedo Challenge? Even without a dashing, single-ski dock start, or the dive team Speedo, the man carried a lethal air. He looked like he could fight death and fear, and win. It made him an icon. Leaping off a houseboat deck rail into thin air with one foot […]
PERSONAL PRIDE vs MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS
February 8, 2017 by
Go ahead and be selfish just this once, keep your personal pride personal. Who among us admits personal pride? Raise a hand. All up? Good. Pride for you and yours is a cornerstone of civilization, something to build on. You can tell personal pride people when you see them in full blossom. They wear […]
