For over two months now, I have been dealing with something of an addiction.  For that long, my team, the Dodgers, have been on the kind of streak that is usually reserved for badly contrived baseball novels.  Starting on June 22, at which point the team was a dreadful 12 games under .500, the Dodgers […]

I have reached retirement age; at least, I have reached the age when people are either able to retire (because of sound investments and/or good benefit plans) or are forced to do so.  In my case, while my investments are relatively decent and my employee benefit plan has provided me a little nest egg, I’m […]

Notwithstanding the difficulties Congress is having with immigration reform, the fact remains that the United States is becoming increasingly diverse, with the designation of Caucasian as the racial identity about to account (if it doesn’t already) for less than 50 percent of the entire population.  And while certain parts of the country still regard racial […]

It’s been almost a hundred years since baseball first confronted the issue of cheating.  Then, it was when a number of players on the Chicago White Sox took money to “throw” the World Series.  The Black Sox Scandal, as it came to be called, led to an iron-clad rule that banished anyone who ever cheated […]