By MONTE DUTTON Uh, don't tell me I've nothing to do. Click here. A few things to ponder on a dreary Monday morning: The next generation will never learn to tie its shoes. It’s a useless knack. I never do it anymore. I was up to 2 a.m. watching the stock cars race. It’s a …
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This is the end of the innocence
By MONTE DUTTON People endlessly walk in a voting loop symbolizing repetitive election promises. Click here. As is my habit, I voted. I like to do it the old-fashioned way, perhaps because I can’t remember ever standing in line. I like the poll workers. There’s time to chat. I heard a guy say this on …
Thoughts that have infected me recently
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Latest trends in the world of sports: Length and size have replaced height and weight. Groups have been replaced by rooms (“the quarterback room”) that I suspect do not actually exist. Some words have flip-flopped meanings to the point where anything goes. Citizens want governments to be “transparent” so they …
How many thousand years is it gonna take?
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Every time there is a great natural disaster, the 100-year mark, or the 1,000-year mark, is invoked. On the 11 o’clock news, the “staff meteorologist” – this is usually a fellow who does card tricks or juggles on the side – assures us this is “a 1,000-year event.” I don’t …
‘Ain’t no place for no poor boy like me’
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. No wonder the kids are pissed off. For at least two generations, the politicians who run this country have paid cruel lip service to the notion that it’s important to pass down to the young a world worth living in. Old folks like me aren’t going to pay for trillions …
A heap of sights and sounds
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. Some of the cooler things I’ve ever done: No particular order. Watching part of the Rolex 24 in Daytona Beach, Fla., at midnight from a Ferris wheel. Driving the Pacific Coast Highway in a car full of scribes when we pass a restaurant on the water. Out front, a man …
Things can get so out of hand
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I always think of this when times are like this in America. In other words, I think about this a lot. Back in the NASCAR years, Nate Ryan and I took road trips from Fort Worth, Texas, to Phoenix, Ariz., because the races were back-to-back. We took various routes, but …
California murder in three installments
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I’m sure this review won’t be a big hit on the site analytics, but I’ve spent a lot time reading lately and resolved to write about each book after I completed it. As I have stockpiled many books over the years that I haven’t gotten around to reading, this means …
It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world*
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. This day began as most days do, with me convincing this laptop I am human. All I had to do was identify three frames that had buses in them. Oh, the humanity. I got a text message warning me to pay immediately a traffic ticket I never got in North …
What in the Name of the Constitution Is Going On?
Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, July 30, 2020, 3:28 p.m. If there’s no sports this fall, it’s devastating. It’s devastating to me because I am running a sports website without the benefit of sports, but it’s devastating for millions because sports is a vital part of their lives. It’s mild in comparison to losing basic social …
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