Good for USC. They are creating diversity by taking those of us with no coaching experience and giving us a chance. I am putting my name out there as having that qualification too. No kids at all myself, much less superstar ones, but I think the criteria is no experience not that. Couldn’t be. So I shall wait by the…

I strongly believe that, in another three years or so, Jerry is going to look a whole lot like Dan Akroyd’s character in “Nothing But Trouble”:

If one opposes both Jerry Jones and Donny 2 Scoops in court, history will be your friend.

Nice sweeping generalization of nearly a billion and a half people there, bud.

I dunno. I’m not seeing the Disney hype machine work as hard on Infinity War as they did on Black Panther or Thor nor am I seeing the same excitement with fans. It will depend on the quality of the film, of course. I have felt that if Age of Ultron had been a better film, it would have another 100 million or so on its…

Uh, I don’t know which country that you live in where it’s so easily to accuse others of racism. We all have our problems with it. All of us.

I grew up in Chicago and lived there for more than 45 years until I moved out about six years ago. I worked for both the city and state at some point (as well as a newspaper) and occasionally covered politics. I was there for the tumultuous Harold Washington election, the Council Wars, a bunch of governor indictments…

I lived in Illinois for a total of nine years (on two separate occasions), through the administrations of both Ryan and Blagojevich.

...I was actually in Springfield when Blago was perp-walked out of his home (dude never actually lived in the Governor’s mansion, though the taxpayers had to fund its upkeep).

I’m now up…

Both my grandpas died when my parents were very young. I used to be sad that I never had one.

My grandpa Donald came home from the war on the Queen Mary, the giant ocean liner that’s now permanently in port as a tourist attraction in Long Beach, CA. He would stand by the front window of his house and look out over the neighborhood while jingling a HUGE wad of change in his pocket. For hours. It’s still a…

This made my day. Incredible stuff.

My grandpa owned his own business. Every day he shut it down for an hour so he could watch Sesame Street over lunch in the breakroom. He made everyone who worked for him (about a dozen people) join him. You had to have a pretty good excuse to not watch Sesame Street with him.

My grandpa was a scratch golfer into his late 60's. When he got older, he stopped playing but he always had me practicing my swing whenever I was at his house. His favorite practice drill was to have me swing a garden rake to get a certain feel. One time he set me up with the rake, watched a couple swings, and then…

When I got my first apartment, my grandfather sent me kitchen supplies from Chinatown in San Francisco, where he’s done all his shopping since the late 1950s. These items appeared singly at a rate of about one per week. All were wrapped in brown paper and masking tape. Steel wok, lid for wok, knife block, and 15…

When I was born, my grandfather opened a checking account in my name. For over three years, my parents put some money in it every month, and deposited any monetary gifts I got for holidays/birthdays in the account. When I was about four, I was sitting at his piano, swinging my legs, and accidentally kicked the piano.…

Both my grandpas had very interesting eating habits.

my pop-pop ate onions like they were apples too! what’s with grandpas and onions?

My grandpa had bad acid reflux and would spit up goo into his dog’s mouth, who then ate it. It was fucking disgusting.

The only things I’ve ever seen my grandfather eat are strip steaks, pimiento cheese, Johnny Walker, RC Cola, Moon Pies, baked potatoes, and Coors Light. He’s still puttering around at 91 years old.