The Old Folks Are Doing OK
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 12th, 2009 5:38 am by HL
The Old Folks Are Doing OK
“Round up everybody that can ride a horse or pull a trigger,” John Wayne says in “Chisum.” “Let’s break out some Winchesters.” That’s how I feel every time someone calls for “saving” Social Security. Conservatives have been likening it to the Bernie Madoff scandal. Some call it a Ponzi scheme, as MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough did recently. And even Democrats talk of fixing the program.
Baseball’s Persistent Drug Culture
The news about Alex Rodriguez’s use of steroids is simultaneously distressing and encouraging. Distressing because we learned that yet another baseball star was cheating. Encouraging because the revelation is one more step toward putting the years of bogus biceps in the past. Baseball and A-Rod were stained, but both have cleaned up and moved on. So now the Yankee slugger and everyone else will be competing on honest terms and records set in the future won’t need an asterisk.