My Inner Author

Here it is Sunday, and the weekend escape from the grind of the week is now being thrust to new politicized heights. Kneeling or standing, angst or no angst. ARGH!!! The most thankless job on planet earth may not be a roll of toilet paper, it is very likely being Trump’s PR team. Whether you like his politics or not, his inability to simply be ‘presidential’ and not get dragged into the street/gutter to fight on every single topic, is beyond tiring. God only knows, how you try and approach someone who simply cannot under any circumstance be quiet and cannot help but lay verbal landmines everywhere people walk. I know some Trump fan friends will say I am siding with the media, well, I am not, I am just tired. Please Donald, just be quiet, for once. Put the phone down for a few days, go have some private time with Melania and just let society handle this anthem protest issue. Your brand of leadership is to pour gas and fire into the mix, because you HAD to have a tak

Dear ESPN, FoxSports, SportsIllustrated, etc. Why are you ruining sports journalism?   I get newspapers are in decline as people (like myself) have long ago switched to consuming media online, and don’t read (much) hard-copy print anymore (mainly due to the timeliness and delivery delay issue).   I realize I do not fit your ideal advertising demographic anymore, as I am nearly 50, male, married, employed full time in the I.T. industry and fairly loyal to the brands I have bought from over the past 25 years of my life, as long as their products don’t take a huge downturn in quality.   But the interesting aspect of this is the irony of this note, I have been a loyal ESPN viewer since it came on the air, and now I am finding myself hoping someone better comes along because the product I loyally consumed for so long has really turned into crap.   And I possess the means to purchase said alternative! No, I am actually not referring to the particular controversy over an anchor t