Recent Comments

1. 4 days ago on Win, Lose, Drew

   The US Women’s National Soccer Team may be a good example of what can be done. The women’s team now has a contract for equal pay with the men’s team. That’s because they are winners, and until recently were the best team in the world for a very long time. Though they don’t possess the speed and power of the men’s game, they’re technical game is as good or better. They’re a bigger draw because they win. Still, even with parity close among the international women’s teams, the USWNT remains highly competitive, unlike the men, who still haven’t proven themselves on the world stage. The women deserve the equal split.

2. 5 days ago on Win, Lose, Drew

   This campaign is a bit misleading. There are other reasons than gender bias that cause the pay disparity, the chief being that the women’s game doesn’t draw the crowds nor corresponding ticket prices, logo (i.e., jerseys, etc.) and TV money to pay them at an equal rate. However, let’s hope the rise in popularity of players like Clark and Brink, et all, is the start of the rise in league income. As popularity grows, so will product demand, ticket prices and the rest, resulting in pay raises — assuming the players union is strong enough to gain a fair portion of the receipts.

3. 4 months ago on Too Much Coffee Man

   My initial reaction: “Oh, geez, that’s terrible!” Then I waited several minutes. Yep, still the same. Gross.

4. 8 months ago on Cul de Sac

   Nowadays it would be sunscreen instead of sun tan lotion. Back in the day, we even used baby oil to enhance the tanning process. Yikes!

5. 9 months ago on Tank McNamara

   The flag rule was initially changed during Covid to keep multiple people from touching the flag. The cups were modified, at least in my area, to have a shallower bottom so you could pick the ball up without pulling the pin. There was a (local?) rule that if the ball hit the pin (at any speed, turns out), it counted as in. I think a lot of us got used to the pin in. Others still insist it be pulled.

6. about 1 year ago on Win, Lose, Drew

   “Heaven” is a little strong. I’d have gone with “Stairway to the stars.”

7. about 1 year ago on Tank McNamara

   Brett Favre. Got to be. He stole from the public. The rest of the jerks pretty much kept their shenanigans within their own little sheltered worlds.

8. over 1 year ago on Crabgrass

   Mass appeal indeed! I should think a bacon sidekick, PigFat, maybe, would work, too! Villains: asparagus, Brussel sprouts, calf liver . . . you know all those things that got slathered with ketchup as a kid

9. over 1 year ago on Candorville

   Isn’t Rosencrantz usually on the other side? Good to see they’re shaking things up. But I still wonder why the soles of their feet are always so clean.

10. almost 2 years ago on In the Sticks

    Salma Hayek directed, produced and played Frida in a wonderful movie about her (“Frida”), which got multiple academy award nominations.