All Blog Posts Tagged 'jack' (2)

When the manager of the Liverpool soccer team said in the 1960's that the sport was more than a matter of life and death, thankfully he was joking. These days, its hard to know if folks know the difference. We do know that many professional sportsmen and women will sell their own mothers to win these days. Witness the baseball doping scandal, soccer's various betting scams, and the vast sums demanded by football players and boxers alike. But even sadder is when a rare attempt at sportsmanship… Continue

REMINDER: THESE ARE MARK'S VIEWS . NOT WAMU's, NOT AU's, NOT ANY OTHER 'U's VIEWS. Washington's news-talk commercial radio station has an "Answer Desk" these days. I was hoping they would get my mortgage refinanced, my kids admitted to the Beauvoir School and arrange a climatic change to the pattern of mid-Atlantic Spring tornadoes. Sadly, they couldn't even answer the most fundamental of contemporary questions: "Can you catch swine flu from… Continue