When I was 6 my father took me and my brother to our first college basketball game, at Carmichael Auditorium. Some here know me as a typically fulminating NC State alumnus, but Mom and Dad went to UNC, so I grew up Carolina. I decided I needed a favorite player, and so I chose Al Wood, the best Tar Heel on the team.… Read more
I am that guy in the window, and I can tell you that I am as uninterested in participating in Saleh’s victimhood (or anyone else’s) as I am in the ongoing fit of grievance and resentment of the American right. The guy in the window is checking out because he sees how little percentage there is in interposing on this… Read more
Incidentally, I worked in Boulder for the Rocky Mountain News about 15 years ago. Medical examiners offices don’t want to leave any questions or guesses and are extremely precise. When I was there, the examiner called the Camera to demand a correction that the office said a motorcyclist had been decapitated in an… Read more