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• BASEBALL IS MORE THAN A GAME

  By TC Weber on October 23, 2020 • ( 1 )

  “When the moon sails out with a hundred faces all the same, the coins made of silver break out in sobs in the pocket.” ― Federico García Lorca   As the ball sailed out of the infield, runners began to… Read More ›

• IT IS NOT THE BUILDING THAT IS IMPORTANT

  By TC Weber on October 21, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  “If you cheat on your road work in the dark of the morning, you will be found out in the big fight under the bright lights.” ― Joe Louis   After all these years I’m starting to get a bit… Read More ›

• THE PRIDE OF OVERTON CLUSTER

  By TC Weber on October 19, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  “What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.” ― Jean Piaget   It was a deep hit ball to the outfield. As the ball traveled towards the wall, the outfielder moved towards it. Tracking… Read More ›

• AN UNQUENCHABLE HUBRIS

  By TC Weber on October 16, 2020 • ( 1 )

  “The irony of our culture is that people are constantly telling other people to go to hell, but no one tells them to go to heaven.” ― Art Buchwald, Too Soon to Say Goodbye   Well, that didn’t take long… Read More ›

• DO WE HAVE THE CORRECT PRIORITIES?

  By TC Weber on October 14, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  “Every story has at least a little truth in it. Every story comes from somewhere.” ― J.J. Abrams   This morning I drove to Wal-mart around 7:45 to get coffee. There is a rapid COVID-19 testing site in a building… Read More ›

• HMMMM…THAT’S A COINCIDENCE

  By TC Weber on October 12, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  “grammar in learning is like tyranny in government – confound the bitch I’ll never be her slave.” ― John Clare   I’ve been doing advocacy work for a minute or two now. Unfortunately, it’s made me a little jaded. When… Read More ›

• A TALE OF TWO RE-OPENINGS

  By TC Weber on October 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.” ― Louise Gluck   As fall Break for MNPS comes to a close, I can’t help but be struck by the irony of the Tennessee Titans struggling to return… Read More ›

• WILL BETSY DEVOS AND THE USDOE ALLOW THE SCHWINIGANS TO CONTINUE UNABATED?

  By TC Weber on October 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” ― George Eliot, Adam Bede   The hits from 2020 keep right on coming. Last week it was the legendary St. Lous Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson. This week, it’s… Read More ›

• A NEVER ENDING STREAM OF CONFUSION

  By TC Weber on October 5, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

  “The good news for the Washington Federals is they do not have a quarterback controversy. The bad news is they do not have a quarterback.” ― Jeff Pearlman, Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the… Read More ›

• HARD PLUS INCONVENIENT DOES NOT EQUAL INEFFECTIVE

  By TC Weber on October 2, 2020 • ( 9 )

  “That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” ― William Kent… Read More ›