A Good Year for the Outlaw

This blog is named after a song written by my favorite songwriter and performer, Jeffrey Steele.
My buddy Dan Dermody called me tonight to tell me that Jeffrey and Stephanie’s son Alex, only 13-years old, was killed Sunday in a 4-wheeler accident. I never got the pleasure to meet Alex, but if he was anything like [...]

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This week’s edition of: “Something that came into the world SINCE the pathetic, hapless, worst pro sports franchise ever – the Chicago Cubs – last won a World Series.”

That’s right. Talking movies came AFTER the last Cubs’ title.

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Mark McGwire didn’t get into the baseball Hall of Fame this year. Good. I am among those who hope he NEVER gets in. His obvious steroid use and his pathetic performance in front of Congress would be enough for me to leave him out of the Hall, but beyond that, the guy really wasn’t any [...]

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I’ll post more later when my head stops shaking uncontrollably. What a freakin’ buffoon.
BTW, can I just say this? I am so sick of the GOP line “we haven’t been attacked since 9/11″. STOP it. It’s NOT A BIG DEAL. We’ve gone DECADES without conflict, CENTURIES without “an attack on our homeland”. Just…STOP…it. My word.
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I’m driving home from Bloomington last night, punching around the AM dial (nothing better than late night AM radio…STILL). I pick up Nashville, Cincinnati, Detroit, Dallas, Minneapolis, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Atlanta…I’m having a blast! And then I pick up a talk show on out of Denver.
The host on that station is upset that Muslim cabbies in [...]

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I went to the “moderate comments” section and made it so only “registered users” could comment. Does this mean anonymous gutless wonders will have to sign in with some kind of handle now to comment? Hope so.

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This week’s edition of: “Something that came into the world SINCE the pathetic, hapless, worst pro sports franchise ever – the Chicago Cubs – last won a World Series.”
Enjoy.

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