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Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2015!

December 30, 2015 A Contemplative Year-End Pep-Talk
December 23, 2015 The Eternal Lessons of Moneyball
December 16, 2015 The Dangers of Skimming in Scientific American
December 9, 2015 Modest Tales of Dogged Perseverence
December 2, 2015 Struggles of the Athletic Mind
November 25, 2015 The Historic Meaning of Turkey to us as a Recreational Folk
November 18, 2015 The Role of Individuals in the Athletic Gestalt
November 11, 2015 Cupgate (A Slippage in the Drivel Brakes)
November 4, 2015 When Greatness Melts
October 28, 2015 9:45 One Last Time (The Wondrous Clades of Evolutionary Biology)
October 21, 2015 Reproductive
October 14, 2015 9:45 Again (A Canine POV)
October 7, 2015
A Calvinisitc Gloss on How Games Unfold
September 30, 2015
For Whom the Ball Rolls
September 23, 2015 Deterrence (A Brazen Use of Narrative Shaming for Our Two Upcoming Early Games)
September 16, 2015 9:45 (The Dynamicsof a new Alliance)
September 9, 2015 Bits and Pieces
September 2, 2015 Tar and Gravel
August 26, 2015 Acts of Self-Revelation
August 19, 2015 The Lessons of Routing
August 12, 2015 9:45 (Resilient to the Core)
August 5, 2015 A New Stage in the Life of the Consummate Attorney-Athlete
July 29, 2015 Time to Feast! (Adventures in the Ceaseless Hand-Eye Problem)
July 22, 2015 Glory on Both Sides
July 15, 2015 The Jane Question
July 8, 2015 Buy it! (A Somewhat Shameless Expansion of the Narrative Objective)
July 1st, 2015 Ninofreude (Your official 5th-of-July Sport!)
June 24, 2015 A Question of Brains
June 17, 2015 Best Part of the Clown Show
June 10, 2015 The Question of Suffering from a Cross-Species Perspective
June 3, 2015 The Semantic Dialectics of Game Theory
May 27, 2015 A Pastime for the Ages
May 20, 2015 The Problematic Nexus of Athletic Dominance and Natural Philosophy
May 13, 2015 Considerations on a Future Trajectory
May 6, 2015 The Epiphany of a Non-Breeder
April 29, 2015 A Brief Sampling in Athletic Historiography
April 22, 2015 The Nuanced Calculus of Hidden Danger
April 15, 2015 A Brief Confessional on the Question of Leadership
April 8, 2015 A Tale of Revivial and its Disturbing Implications
April 1, 2015 The Kinesiological Meaning of Easter
March 25, 2015 Good Times in Stressville
March 18, 2015 Simian (The Dynamics of Stellar Collapse)
March 11, 2015 Questions of Historical Perspective
March 4, 2015 Notes on our Patria
February 25, 2015 Finally (Tacit Relief on the Patience of Yak)
February 18, 2015 Musings of a City Boy
February 11, 2015 Nature (A Preemptive Release from our Inevitable Hosing)
February 4, 2015 Hormonal
January 28, 2015 Whack-a-Mole
January 21, 2015 Challenges
January 14, 2015 Unbroken (The City vs. Us, One More Time)
January 7, 2015 The Promise of Generational Renewal
December 31, 2014 A Home for Now
December 24, 2014 A Scriptural Defense of our Recent Behavior
December 17, 2014 The Humbling
December 10, 2014 That Which does not Kill Us
December 3, 2014 Our Crisis of Uncertainty
November 26, 2014 Turkish (Complexities in the vast American Landscape)
November 19, 2014 A Musical (The Cantata of Management Failed)
November 12, 2014 A Pseudo-Hegalian Take on the Troubled Athletic Condition
November 5, 2014 An Excursion in Topical Drift
October 29, 2014 Our Feats in Perspective
October 22, 2014 Talkin' Major 4th-Edition Revision Blues
October 15, 2014 9:37 (A Tale of Two Gentle Giants)
October 8, 2014 Across the Ages (13 Decades of Tripletude)
October 1, 2014 9:37 (Another Test of our Communal Mettle)
September 24, 2014 A Triumph of Raw Resolve
September 17, 2014 A Pair of Almost Never
September 10, 2014 Goodness Defied
September 3, 2014 A Case Study of the Variations of Celerity
August 27, 2014 Hints of Cognitive Overload
August 20, 2014 Thoughts that Emerge from a Patella Bloodied
August 13, 2014 An Anthropological Gloss of Athletic Distinction in Context
August 6, 2014 The Varieties of Work Product
July 30, 2014 The Calculus of Aerobic Hegemony
July 23, 2014 In Search of Excellence
July 16, 2014 A Briefing on the Appearence of Kin
July 9, 2014 The Varied Travails of Recreational Creation
July 2, 2014 Freedom
June 25, 2014 Green Lake (Questions of Fairness, Eggwhite and Stare Decisis)
June 18, 2014 Back Again (Brief Musings on the Evolution Problem)
June 11, 2014 A Tale of Two Temporal Directions
June 4, 2014 A Brief Excusrion into What we Kant Understand
May 28, 2014 Considerations on the Great Varieties of Kismet
May 21, 2014 Shameless (A W.C. Fields Amongst Us)
May 14, 2014 Principle (A Swim Through the Pop-Culture Reference Pool)
May 7, 2014 Fathers and Sons (A Chronicle of Heroism Diverged)
April 30, 2014 Clippers
April 23, 2014 A Hobbesian Overview of the Basic Dilemma in Athletic Competition
April 16, 2014 Upping the Stakes (A Somewhat Dicey Approach to the Scourge of Ineptitude)
April 9, 2014 A Rare Materialist Approach to Game Analysis
April 2, 2014 Of Eggs and Balls
March 26, 2014 The Incalcuable Ripples of a Breach in Expectations
March 19, 2014 A Brief Case-Study in the Wikification of Tactical Responses to Writer's Block
March 12, 2014 Physics (The Exculpatory yet Disconcerting Nature of Recreational Reality)
March 5, 2014 The Tongue at its Best
February 26, 2014 The Varying Degrees of Medical Peril in the Process of Self-Galvinization
February 19, 2014 You, Tea, Eye (A Semi-Cryptic Approach to the Reportorial Task at Hand)
February 12, 2014 Hints of my own Inner Turmoil
February 5, 2014 Discomforting Disclosures in the Process of Aerobic Governance
January 29, 2014 A Rather Loosly Fitting Metaphor for the Entitlement Dilemma
January 22, 2014 Testing the Borders of Metaphorical Abuse
January 15, 2014 The Mysterties of Pittsburgh
January 8, 2014 A Comeback for the Ages
January 1, 2014 Taking Stock, in Broad Temporal Persepctive

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2013!

December 25, 2013 Noel
December 18, 2013 On Why We Don't Stop
December 11, 2013 Briefly, from the North
December 4, 2013 Predictive (A Broad Epistemological Take on Why We Play)
November 27, 2013 Febrile-Affected Musings of this Year's Gobble
November 20, 2013 Stoic
November 13, 2013 Ours
November 6, 2013 The Cusp of Diaspora's End
October 30, 2013 A Yarn of Consanguinity
October 23, 2013 The Ceaseless Allure of Resistence to Authority
October 16, 2013 Embedded within the Broader Nutso Whole
October 9, 2013 The Painful Etiology of Institutional Change
October 2, 2013 Breaking Topical
September 25, 2013 Refelection of the Interplay of Soil and Destiny
September 18, 2013 A Personal Tale of Exile Accepted
September 11, 2013 Grove! (Plus ça Change)
September 4, 2013 Introspective (A Brief Remembrance of Nixon in Reykjavvik)
August 28, 2013 A Modest Dash of Zinn
August 21, 2013 The Ageony and the Ecstacy om Stark Narrative Relief
August 14, 2013 Breaking Bad (A Rare Slip in Communal Cohesion)
August 7, 2013 A Modesty Indulgent Narrative in the Quasi-Recursive Form
July 31, 2013 The Creaky Mechanics of Democratic Governance
July 24, 2013 It's a Goy!
July 17, 2013 Logy (The Bittersweet Machinations of Institutional Churn)
July 10, 2013 A Goodbye feast
July 3, 2013 HK, Baby!
June 26, 2013 Scalia (A Modesty Cynical Post-VRA Pre-Prop-8 Mini-Rant on my Favorite Jurist of Principle)
June 19, 2013 Advil (Exemplars in Darwinian Thought)
June 12, 2013 Orwell
June 5, 2013 A Brazen New Paradigm in the Recreational Arts
May 29, 2013 New Adventures in Rulemaking
May 22, 2013 Briefly Taking Stock
May 15, 2013 A Somewhat Implicit Argument Against Cantonese
May 8, 2013 A Ghastly Misplacement of the Athletic Fulcrum
May 1, 2013 An Existential Gloss on a Masterpiece
April 24, 2013 A Comparative Case Study of the Decision-Making Process
April 17, 2013 Thinking
April10, 2013 Refelctive Flirtations with the Athletic Soul
April 3, 2013 A Rare Excursion into the Legislative Weeds
March 27, 2013 The Court (Varied Considerations through the Ages)
March 20, 2013 Strains in the Coherence of the Narrative Process
March 13, 2013 A Cohesively Strained Sojourn into Failure Analysis
March 6, 2013 Some Reportage Bordering on Codswallop
February 27, 2013 A Huxleyan Gloss on Cosmology, Sport and the Hinge of Fate
February 20, 2013 A Case Study in the Sublime Forseen
February 13, 2013 The State of the Aerobic Union
February 6, 2013 A Brief Case Study of an Incident in Recreational Entropy
January 30, 2013 Blowouts (Musings on the Varied Strains of Humanity and Rout)
January 23, 2013 Pertinent Lessons in Recreational Jurisprudence
January 16, 2013 Priorities
January 9, 2013 Rock of Ages
January 2, 2013 A Brief Case Study of the Pendulum in Motion

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2012!

December 26, 2012 Help (Quickly from Afar)
December 19, 2012 The Usual Musings on Garments and the Nativity
December 12, 2012 Tales of the Feral Boscage
December 5, 2012 Gross (A Brief Report on My Startling Visit to the Wetted Mother Soils)
November 28, 2012 Fear Not
November 21, 2012 Recreational Considerationson Turkish Cuisine
November 14, 2012 A Somewhat Strained French Perspective on Events of the Day
November 7, 2012 A Brief and Lazy Aerobic Gloss on the Vote
October 31, 2012 Fragile
October 24, 2012 A Somewhat Discursive Approach to the Narrative Form
October 17, 2012 Sufferage (Another Brief Foray into the Free Beer Problem)
October 10, 2012 Across the Universe
October 3, 2012 The More Dubious Angels of our Own Nature
September 26, 2012 The Acerbic Recreational Politics of Place
September 19, 2012 Grove (A Sudden Crisis of the Land this way Comes)
September 12, 2012 Mind Games
September 5, 2012 Additional Gaps and Problems in the Cognitive Base
August 29, 2012 Tampa
August 22, 2012 Greatness that Endures
August 15, 2012 A Brief Gander at the Conceptual Perils of Certainty on Paper
August 8, 2012 Reflections of my Subtle Ambivalence Toward Creation
August 1, 2012 Strivings in Reportorial Integrity
July 25, 2012 Risk (Considerations of Potential Regulatory Reform)
July 18, 2012 Musings on Etiology as a Form of Cognitive Weed
July 11, 2012 Internationalist Remorse from the Latest Community Churn
July 4, 2012 Philidelphia (A Somwhat Discursive overview of Events as they Unfolded)
June 27, 2012 Humble
June 20, 2012 Some Slight Slippage in Intra-Communal Promotional Decorum
June 13, 2012 Musings on my Rendezvous with Dental Destiny
June 6, 2012 One Quarter her Glory (Time to Grill!)
May 30, 2012 The Rusty Ship (Some Modest Adherence to Narrative Concission)
May 23, 2012 The Varied Phylos of Pain within the Human Condition
May 16, 2012 Considerations of a Potential Academic Trajecotry
May 9, 2012 Sappy (Troubled Musings on the Essence of Who We Are)
May 2, 2012 A Tactically Dicey Approach to Transformative Self-Improvement
April 25, 2012 A Somewhat Strained Excursion into the Why
April 18, 2012 The Play
April11, 2012 The varied Strains of Resistance
April 4, 2012 EasterBall! (Musings in Comparative Pain)
March 28, 2012 An Enlightenment-Era Gloss on the Nexus of Sport and Bonding
March 21, 2012 Varied Snippets in the Process of Struggle
March 14, 2012 Reflections on the Athletic Nexus of Physics and PolySci
March 7, 2012 Smirnoff, Causation and the Psychic Wounds of Youth
February 29 Contemplative Explorations in Consanguinity
February 22 Another Abstract Peril
February 15 Those Principled Bishops (A Somewhat Snarky Foray into the Nexus of Sport, the Theology of Convenience and Contraceptive Politics)
February 8 The Fear Factor
February 1 A Confluence of Nuts (With no Actual Refrence to Florida)
January 25 The Perilous Fork of Choice Itself
January 18 The Spark of Foregin Inspiration
January 11 The Byzantine Leaders of Regulatory Modification
January 4 My Favorite Anti Griswold v. Connecticut Candidate!

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2011!

December 28 Your Offficial New Year's Day Sport (Musings on Time and the Church)
December 21 WWJP? (Your Official 1PM Xmas Day Sport)
December 14 Discursive Musings on the Inscrutability of Nature
December 7 Another Argument for Civil Libertarianism (Difficulties in the Final Ascription of Fault)
November 30 A Brief Political Swerve (The Usual Drivel as a Window into my Respect for Perfect Replication)
November 23 Gobble (Eye of Newt, Messaging and Shameless Forays in Self-Plagiarization)
November 16 Musings on the Role of Deterministic Uncertainty in the Creation of Athletic Heroism
November 9 The Universe of Trajectories
November 2 Snippets from the Campaign
October 26 Homeward Bound (With Initial Temporal Tweaks)
October 19 Wall Street (The Discomforting Roots of our Annual Diaspora)
October 12 The Season of Our Banishment
October 5 A Quasi-Tacit Proposal of Environmental Amelioration
September 28, 2011 The Uncertainty Principles
September 21, 2011 The Struggles of a Schlemiel
September 14, 2011 Social Security
September 7, 2011 Hirsute (An Admittedly Muddled Attempt at Connecting the Dots)
August 31, 2011 A Somewhat Discursive Gloss on the Issues at hand
August 24, 2011 Evidentiary Stirrings of a Paradigm Shift
August 17, 2011 Out of Africa
August 10, 2011 Couch Potato (A Somewhat Convoluted Foray into the Intangibles)
August 3, 2011 Adieu (The Ceaseless Churn of Roster renewal)
July 27, 2011 A Pre-London Farewell Feast
July 20, 2011 Cantor (An Analytical Approach to two Discrete Fault Lines)
July 13, 2011 Musings on our Perilous Relations with the Fourth estate
July 6, 2011 Temptations of the Old World in Proper Recreational Context
June 29, 2011 A Sudden failure in Drivel Control
June 22, 2011 Familial
June 15, 2011 A Loose Metaphorical Gloss on Human Reproduction
June 8, 2011 Ironic (Tales from our Great Return)
June 1, 2011 Homeward Bound
May 25, 2011 The Challneges of our Potentially Ephemeral Youth
May 18, 2011 The Bittersweet Process of Collective Renewal
May 11, 2011 Routine at 50 (Flouting the Risks of TMI)
May 4, 2011 Abstract Musings on Where We Stand, Post-Abbottabad
April 27, 2011 British
April 20, 2011 Ponderings on the Recreational Meaning of Easter
April 13, 2011 The Varied Levels of Governance
April 6, 2011 Youth (A Shameless Appeal for Focus While Pecking Under Pain)
March 30, 2011 The Perils of Synthetic Celerity
March 23, 2011 Stout Resolve from the Logistical Abyss
March 16, 2011 Briefly, in Weary Mode
March 9, 2011 Alternartive Venues of Despair
March 2, 2011 Moving On (The Sorrow and the Pity)
February 23, 2011 The Imminence of a Staggering Communal Challenge
February 16, 2011 Iowa (A Somewhat Strained Foray into my Favorite Conspiracy)
February 9, 2011 Lessons of Broad Metaphorical Application in the Geoathletic Experience
February 2, 2011 Dreams Deferred, Big and Small
January 26, 2011 Us (A Brief Annual Report on Where We Stand)
January 19, 2011 Nitrogen (Musings on the Variation of Things that Spur us Ever Forward)
January 12, 2011 The Divergent Experiential Strains of HomoAthleticus
January 5, 2011 A Somewhat Inauspicious Start to the Year

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2010!

December 29, 2010 A Plausible Argument for the Purchase of Ray-Bans
December 22, 2010 The Circle Game
December 15, 2010 Ponderings on the Fountain Most Sought
December 8, 2010 A Tale of Resolve and Innovation
December 1, 2010 The Random Boot of Municipal Tyranny
November 24, 2010 Guilt, Turkey and Drivel
November 17, 2010 Feelings
November 10, 2010 A Quasi-Ontological Gloss on Our Communal Dilemmas
November 3, 2010 The Ceaseless Challenge of Peril and Nuisance
October 27, 2010 A Tactical Forya into Pre-Winter Stoutification
October 20, 2010 Musings on the Organizational Crisis of our Fraying Resolve
October 13, 2010 9:45 (Further Musings on the Nature of Value)
October 6, 2010 The Delicate Issue of Nuts
September 29, 2010 Family (Issues of Transition, Near and Far)
September 22, 2010 Delaware
September 15, 2010 Drivel within a Comparative Context
September 8, 2010 The Zen of Insoluble Mysteries
September 1, 2010 Musings on Mothers, Daughters and the Current Zeitgeist
August 25, 2010 The Varied Origins of Gagging
August 18, 2010 2060 (Guarded Optimism on the Gerontological Front)
August 11, 2010 Memories of Paris, '82-83
August 4, 2010 Consideration of Species in Future Recreational Endeavor
July 28, 2010 Dabblings in the Genre of the Turnaround Narrative
July 21, 2010 El Norte (Considering the Path Less Trod)
July 14, 2010 Stoned (Musings on Science, Theology and Comparative Sport)
July 7, 2010 A Calamitous Independence Day
June 30, 2010 Musings on the Roberts Court in the Context of an Announcement on Jeffersonian Cuisine
June 23, 2010 Somewhat Laconic
June 16, 2010 Once in a Lifetime
June 9, 2010 A Fiat (Pertinent Lessons from our Professional Cousins)
June 2, 2010 An Existential Gloss on the Dilemma of Player Performance
May 26, 2010 A Quasi-official Announcement on My Ultimate Wishes
May 19, 2010 Another Episode in the Mysteries of Cognition
May 12, 2010 Conceptual Variations in Filial Majesty
May 5, 2010 Nearly Asleep at the Organizational Wheel
April 28, 2010 Arizona
April 21, 2010 Staggering Variation in the Trajectory of Ripple Effects
April 14, 2010 Stark Musings on the Gestalt of our Predicament
April 7, 2010 A Nuanced Display of our Renowned Intrepidity
March 31, 2010 Further Musings on the Origins of Judeo-Christian Athletics
March 24, 2010 Our Heritage of Heroes—Present, Past, Future
March 17, 2010 Diktat Dissolved (A Multimedia Example of How We Endure)
March 10, 2010 The Psycho-Newtonian Riddles of Proximate Cause in Sport
March 3, 2010 Where We Stand
February 24, 2010 A Brief Rant on My Favorite American Nutjob
February 17, 2010 The Sudden Sparks of Thinly Veiled Magnificience
February 10, 2010 A Somewhat Circuitous Approach to Rallying the Base
February 3, 2010 A Quasi-Dialectical Portrait of how Our Legacy Endures
January 27, 2010 One More Try in the Quest for Recreational Consummation
January 20, 2010 Faith in Drainage
January 13, 2010 Contrasts in the Content of our Characters
January 6, 2010 Musings on the Ceasless Dilemma of Progress

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2009!

December 30, 2009 Time Passages
December 23, 2009 Xmas (The Staggering Power of Prenuptial Incentivization)
December 16, 2009 Einstein, Heisenberg, and the Limits of Game Theory
December 9, 2009 The Homecoming (Musings on the Ambiguities of Carbon)
December 2, 2009
Homeward Bound
November 25, 2009 The Circle Game
November 18, 2009 Musings on a Transition of Majestic Import
November 11, 2009 Another Giant Leaving
November 4, 2009 Brief Grazings in Sport, the Fine Arts and Media
October 28, 2009 The Roiling Ghosts of Keystone Studios
October 21, 2009 Musings from the Far Side
October 14, 2009 The Harsh Implications in a Straining of Quorum
October 7, 2009 A Blunt Reappraisal of our Aerobic d'etre
September 30, 2009 Flaws in the Process of Spontaneous Analysis
September 23, 2009 Mysteries of Deisitc Intent for the Spiritual Athlete
September 16, 2009
An Overview of Where we Stand
September 9, 2009 The Drama of Ensconcement in our Temporary Digs
September 2, 2009 Our Annual Diaspora
August 26, 2009 The Ceaseless Churn of Change (Time to Feast Again!)
August 19, 2009 Decisions (The Majesty of Recreational Self-Governance)
August 12, 2009 The Psychological Calculus of the Athlete in Motion
August 5, 2009 Balls
July 29, 2009 A Welcome Dip in our Potential Mean Age
July 22, 2009 Martial Speculations on the Interplay of Species
July 15, 2009 The Craft of Allurage in Calculated Roster Renewal
July 8, 2009 Alaska (The Divergent Means of Advancing Toward Home)
July 1, 2009 When in the Course of Human Events
June 24, 2009 Soils, Rich in Kin
June 17, 2009 The Enduring Glory of Holland
June 10, 2009 A Quasi-Darwinian Gloss on the Evolution of our own Folk
June 3, 2009 Rodentia (Some Random Notes on Barbecue Ball)
May 27, 2009 Accountability, Painful and Stark (Time to Feast)
May 20, 2009 The Inherent Risk of Replacement Parts (Again)
May 13, 2009 A Brief Reappraisal of Zero Population Growth
May 6, 2009
The Abstractions of Cancellation
April 29, 2009
Pork Chops (Recreational Prudence in the Wake of Crisis)
April 22, 2009
Animal Planet
April 15, 2009 A Brief Dialectic on Failure and Fault
April 8, 2009 Your Non-Denominational Passover-Easter Sport
April 1, 2009 Jet Lag Stoned
March 18, 2009
Hong Kong
March 11, 2009 The Come and Go of Human Excellence
March 4, 2009 A Comparative Reassurance in Animal Biology
February 25, 2009 A Somewhat Muddled Fory into the Theoretical Realm
February 18, 2009 The Varied Strains of Fragility
February11, 2009 The Visit (Some Residual Fraternal Musings on a certain Genere of Art)
February 4, 2009 A Pitcher's Tale
January 28, 2009 Sacrifice
January 21, 2009 An Inauspicious Start to the Obama Years
January 14, 2009 The Nettlesome Convergence of Cosmology and Sport
January 7, 2009 A Black Swan at Home

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2008!

December 31, 2008 A Potential Year-end Icon of the Fine Visual Arts
December 24, 2008 A Dawkinsinion View on Risk, Rain and Athletic Theology
December 17, 2008 Community
December 10, 2008 A Shameless in Dip into the Current Pop Culture Milieu
December 3, 2008 The Question of our Institutional Survival in Hard Times
November 26, 2008 Seasonal Selections in Turkish Literature
November 19, 2008 Ruminations on a Work in Progress
November 12, 2008 The Varied Strains of Change
November 5, 2008 History, Relief and Schadenfreude
October 29, 2008 We the People (A Rare Appeal to Replenish our Ranks)
October 22, 2008 A Unique Foray into the Zones Beyond Specialization
October 15, 2008 A Brazen Decree for Player Safety
October 8, 2008 An Unfortunate Nephrological Blunder
October 1, 2008 Regulatory Tweaking in the Subprime Athletic Markets
September 24, 2008 October '29 (The Varied Intensities of Cognitive Strain)
September 17, 2008 Another Shifting Border of Individual Potential
September 10, 2008 Risk, Physics and the Tactical Psychology of Disgrace
September 3, 2008 A Directive of Brazen Scope
August 27, 2008 A City Boy's Perspective on Paying Tribute to labor
August 20, 2008 An Attorney, A Waif and a Speculative Abstraction
August 13, 2008 Another Backbone Gone
August 6, 2008 Melbourne (A Wondrous Fluke before his longest Flight)
July 30, 2008 Mysteries of the Athletic Mind
July 23, 2008 Losers (A Narrative of the Assorted Diffusion of Fault)
July 16, 2008 Dylan (Musings on my Imminent Escape)
July 9, 2008 A Tactical Sabbatical
July 2, 2008 Your American Revolution Sport
June 25, 2008 Organic Renewal, Ceasless and Inevitable
June 18, 2008 Whatever it Takes
June 11, 2008 Deep Ruminations on a Bad Day
June 4, 2008 The Varied Strains of Victory
May 28, 2008 A Brief Account of a Calamitous Denouement
May 21, 2008 Forward, quickly ever Forward
May 14, 2008 Mothers and Sons (and Captains)
May 7, 2008 Another Milestone Noted (and then Some)
April 30, 2008 Another Tale of Fatal Seduction
April 23, 2008 A Brief Recap of a Potential International Incident
April 16, 2008 The Organizer as a Giant of Athletic Journalism
April 9, 2008 A Rough Patch as seen in the Context of its Meaning
April 2, 2008 The Perils of Life in a Post-Einsteinian Age
March 26, 2008 The Superstars Amongst Us
March 19, 2008 A Rare Skipper's Day of Struggle
March 12, 2008 A Portrait of Turmoil in the Wake of Executive Miscasting
March 5, 2008 Inspirational Yarns of Pure Athletic Focus
February 27, 2008 The Varied Targets of my Sassy Wrath
February 20, 2008 The Goats we Cherish
February 13, 2008 Equilibrium as a Conceptual Necessity in the Athletic Ether
February 6, 2008 The Compelling Craft of Recreational Blends
January 30, 2008 Flexible, Resolute, Bisportal
January 23, 2008 Another Breakthrough in Quantum Athletics
January 16, 2008 The Compelling Craft of Really Bad Athletic Prose
January 9, 2008 Field of Creams
January 2, 2008 Kismet (Quality Time with the Scifi Channel)

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2007!

December 26, 2007 Our Dumb World
December 19, 2007 Musings on an Ethical Issue from the old Athletic Canon
December 12, 2007 A Southpaw's Tale
December 5, 2007 Expecatations, Martians and a Lesson in the Common Law
November 28, 2007 Tugenev's Lingering Ghost
November 21, 2007 A Scholarly Review of Turkey
November 14, 2007 Some Troublesome Implications for the Jury System
November 7, 2007 A Slightly Cynical Foray into Literary Pop Culture
October 31, 2007 Nervous
October 24, 2007 Hanky-Panky, Now and Then
October 17, 2007 The Moral Taint of Ray-Bans
October 10, 2ßß007 The Triumph of Romance
October 3, 2007 A Brief Foray into the Dark Ages
September 26, 2007 A Tale with Arc (Chronicle of a Strike Foretold)
September 19, 2007 Heroism in the Lower Roster
September 12, 2007 Our Diaspora Anew
September 5, 2007 The Historic Roots of our Continued Oppression
August 29, 2007 The Neglected Art of Abstracted Comparison
August 22, 2007 A Brief Tangent on the Current Zeitgeist
August 15, 2007 The Limits of Leadership
August 8, 2007 Really, Really White
August 1, 2007 A Primer on Managing Familial Expectations
July 25, 2007 A Brief Foray into the Nurturing Salve of Blame
July 18, 2007 Like Bonds, A Rough Patch
July 11, 2007 A Brief Rant on a Target too Easy
July 4, 2007 Your Perennial Enlightenment-Schtick Sport
June 27, 2007
An Incident of Aerobic Dimentia
June 20, 2007 Whatever it Takes
June 13, 2007 The Second Decade
June 6, 2007 Ten
May 30, 2007 A Brief Foray into the Collapse of Athletic Societies
May 23, 2007 A Community of Stalwarts
May 16, 2007 The Emotive Dilemma of Progeny
May 9, 2007 A Semi-Dharmic Perspective
May 2, 2007 The Pickle as a Failed Heuristic Tool
April 25, 2007 The Case for Callous Umpires
April 18, 2007 Distracted
April 11, 2007 Wheaties
April 3, 2007 The Compelling Logic of Easter Dating
March 28, 2007 East of Java
March 21, 2007 Athens (The Final Shot of a Sub-Shtick Abused)
March 14, 2007 Pretzel Logic (Plus: Live with our Moral Backbone!)
March 7, 2007 The Various Levels of Smearing
February 28, 2007 A Tad Lazy
February 27, 2007 Excursions in the Past Conditional
February 14, 2007 Our Sublime Media Culture (The Nature of Bandwagons, Part 2)
February 7, 2007 A Time to Toch
January 31, 2007 The Malleable Calculus of Rotation
January 24, 2007 Post-trip (Another Argument for Spanish)
January 16, 2007 Babel (Drivelings of a Sensory-Overloaded Voyager)
January 11, 2007 Greetings from Canton Province (in theory)
January 02, 2007 Adieu

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2006!

December 25, 2006 Excellent News
December 20, 2006 Your Judeo-Christian Good-time Sport
December 13, 2006 The Tempered Musings of a Heliophilic City Boy
December 10, 2006 Screwed ;-(
December 06, 2006 Rules and Reflections
November 29, 2006 A Stirring Tale of Cut and Run
November 22, 2006 Turkeys and Transitions
November 15, 2006 The Delicate Craft of Narrative Athletic Literature
November 08, 2006 A Little Midterm Schadenfreude
November 01, 2006 Estrogen (Tales of a Semi-Professional Ghost Writer)
October 25, 2006 The Varied Strains of Scientific Speculation
October 18, 2006 Discursive by Design
October 11, 2006 Foley-Free (Credit, where Credit is Due)
October 04, 2006 Lungs of Steal
September 27, 2006 Stoic (Musings of a Wounded Sissy)
September 20, 2006 With Apologies to Anatole France
September 13, 2006 Pay Attention
September 5, 2006 A Diaspora of Families
August 30, 2006 A Trio of Gazelles Denied
August 23, 2006 End Times (Reflections on Religion, Sport and Destiny)
August 16, 2006 The Inherent Risk of Replacement Parts (Redux)
August 9, 2006 Your Totally Forgiving Ovulatory Goodtime Sport
August 2, 2006 Mel (Your Totally Current In-Vino-Veritas Sport)
July 26, 2006 The Cumulative nature of Fault
July 19, 2006 Another Reason to Play
July 12, 2006 Seamless
July 5, 2006 Handoff....
June 28, 2006 Myth, Sport and the Distant Days of Yore
June 21, 2006 The Random Musings of a Barren Athlete
June 14, 2006 A Primer on the Timing of Celebration
June 7, 2006 Liberal
May 31, 2006 Your Really Low Barrier to Entry Sport
May 24, 2006 Peaks and Valleys and the Inner Me
May 17, 2006 The Risks of Titular Authority
May 10, 2006 The Tender Dynamic of Couples (Part II)
May 3, 2006 The Tempered Musings of an Internationalist Urbanite
April 26, 2006 The Tender Dynamic of Couples
April 19, 2006 The Varied Layers of Mystery
April 12, 2006 Another Swipe at Fair and Balanced Fatuity
April 5, 2006 A Concise Appreciation of the Democratic Form
March 29, 2006 The Process of Change, Discomforting but Vital
March 22, 2006 The Problems with Cyber
March 15, 2006 Our Finest Hour (with apologies to Churchill)
March 8, 2006 Musings on who We are and What We Do
March 1, 2006 Another Literary Sojourn
February 22, 2006 A Case Study in Athletic Reasoning
February 15, 2006 The Bitter Life of Ghost Co-Authorship
February 8, 2006 Way Before Seinfeld
February 1, 2006 A Brief Treatise on Leadering
January 25, 2006 The Downside of Spatial Dyslexia
January 18, 2006 Short and Cogent (The End of a Disturbing Feckless Period)
January 11, 2006 Balls (The Education of a Squeamish Reader)
January 04, 2006 A Failure of Organizational Risk-Taking

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2005!

December 28, 2005 The Perils of Leadership in Stormy Times
December 21, 2005 A Modest Dip into the Seasonal Culture Wars
December 14, 2005 Formosa
December 7, 2005 Tchaikovsky
November 30, 2005 Singles of Distinction
November 23, 2005 Your After-the-Bird Sport
November 16, 2005 A Broad Universal Perspective on Animal Behavior
November 9, 2005 The Varied Roads to Joy
November 2, 2005 A Foray into the Aesthetic Realm
October 26, 2005 Musings of a Vasectomized Loser
October 19, 2005 The Essence of Who We Are
October 12, 2005 A Sojourn into the Pure Athletic Narrative
October 5, 2005 Another in a Series of Potentially Elusive Recruits
September 28, 2005 Ehud's Mission (A Final Try at Upping Our Cognitive Stats)
September 21, 2005 Unabashed Pride in the Local Gene Pool
September 14, 2005 The Travails of Our Own
September 7, 2005 Priorities (A Brief Look at Familial Dynamics)
August 31, 2005 Reasons to Play
August 24, 2005 Residual Topicalities of my Northwest Imprisonment
August 17, 2005 Hormones
August 10, 2005 Slippery Slopes (Confessions of a News Hound)
August 3, 2005 The Moral Worth of Baseline Prey
July 27, 2005 Philadelphia (The Rules of Engagement)
July 20, 2005 Your Money's Worth
July 13, 2005 No Time to Woo Ewe
July 6, 2005 Brave New World
June 29, 2005 Recurrent Musings on Colonial Athletics
June 22, 2005 Another Wound of the Housing Bubble
June 15, 2005 The Ironic Melding of Cyber and Sport
June 8, 2005 A Tale of two Speeds
June 1, 2005 Scary
May 25, 2005 Further Reflections at 45
May 18, 2005 Across the Generations
May 11, 2005 Somewhat Less Than Macho
May 4, 2005 The Joys Denied of Metrosexual Man
April 27, 2005 The Return of a National Hero
April 20, 2005 A Frisky Challenge to Papal Doctrine
April 13, 2005 The Inherent Risk of Replacement Parts
April 6, 2005 The Nuisance of Cybercorrosion
March 30, 2005 The Mysteries of Arbitrary Stature
March 23, 2005 Our Reluctant Volunteer
March 16, 2005 Paradigms (The Eerie Convergence of Science and Sport)
March 9, 2005 The Conceptual Alllure of More Favoreable Laws
March 2, 2005 A Patina of Crude
February 23, 2005 Abstract (Venerable Schtick #9B)
February 16, 2005 Chills at the Keyboard
February 9, 2005 A Different Day (The Tradeoffs of Modesty)
February 2, 2005 Our Ceaseless Struggle
January 26, 2005 The Higher callings of Athletic Man
January 19, 2005 The Perils of Regulatory Reform
January 12, 2005 A Brutal Reminder of Why We Rent Land
January 5, 2005 A Modest Tale of Courage in the Practical Skill Sets

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2004!

December 29, 2004 The End of Another Era ;-(
December 22, 2004 The Nativity Factor
December 15, 2004 A Little Residual Grumbling
December 8, 2004 Suspected Avenues of Comparative Advanatage
December 1, 2004 Kin (Your Post Jay Z Transitional Note)
November 22, 2004 Away
November 17, 2004 Butterfingers
November 10, 2004 A Brief Quasi-Rant
November 2, 2004 Early (And Often)
October 27, 2004 The Lingering Issue of Arms Control
October 20, 2004 The Reasons We Take Calcium
October 13, 2004 Some Light Science Fiction Reading
October 6, 2004 (Most) Girls Rock
September 29, 2004 Risks of Sporadic Sport in the Aging Male
September 22, 2004 Dissed Again
September 15, 2004 A Circuitous Road to Nader's Redemption
September 8, 2004 The Painful Process of Codified Explication
September 1, 2004 Underestimation of the Vital Lower Tiers
August 25, 2004 The Sublime Integrity of our Presidiential Politics
August 18, 2004 The Cardiovascular Arts
August 11, 2004 In Search of Better Pen-Pals
August 4, 2004 The Brazen Dynamics of Communal Evolution
July 28, 2004 Defiant (My Progressive Berkeley Neighbors)
July 21, 2004 The Feminine Within
July 14, 2004 MVP (And LVP)
July 7, 2004 Unfortunate
June 30, 2004 The Problem with Byrds
June 24, 2004 The Meditative Tranquillity of Extended Family
June 14, 2004 Succession (Early 'n Brief)
June 9, 2004 Teflon
June 2, 2004 Living with Shame
May 26, 2004 Nettlesome Issues in Sport and Philosophy
May 19, 2004 Impressions ("Why don't you write about me?")
May 12, 2004 The Craft of Planning Chow
May 5, 2004 The Big Ouch
April 28, 2004 Some Late Night Web Surfing
April 21, 2004 The Varied Legacies of Europe
April 14, 2004 The Tingly Foundations of Romance
April 7, 2004 Your Offical Good Time Easter Sport
March 31, 2004 The Mystery of Pairs
March 24, 2004 The Imminence of Birthing
March 17, 2004 The Complexities of Fault
March 10, 2004 A Rookie's Tale
March 3, 2004 Passion Plays
February 25, 2004 Another Venue in our Bittersweet Diaspora
February 18, 2004 Fact and Fantasy (The Delicate Craft of Athletic History)
February 11, 2004 Siddhartha
February 4, 2004 Boobs
Janaury 28, 2004 Bushonomics Explained
Janaury 21, 2004 The Stark Power of Mammals
Janaury 14, 2004 The Challenges Ahead
Janaury 7, 2004 This Vexatious Problem of Land

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2003!

December 31, 2003 Accomplishments
December 24, 2003 Tales of the Athletic Testament
December 17, 2003 A Stirring Sign of God
December 10, 2003 Loqacious (A Harsh Reminder of Who We Are)
December 3, 2003 Soaked (A Shameless Smattering of Self-Derivatives)
November 26, 2003 Turkeys
November 19, 2003 Arbitrary
November 12, 2003 Pooped
October 29, 2003 A Rigorous Defense of the Institution
October 22, 2003 The Varied paths of Questionable Advanatage
October 15, 2003 Game Notes (Theoloigcal Musings on Strategy and Blame)
October 8, 2003 Remembrance of Prophecy
October 1, 2003 Missives through the Ages
September 24, 2003 Another Wondrous Factoid
September 17, 2003 Drained
September 10, 2003 Peer Pressure
September 3, 2003 The Sinister Stones of Space
August 27, 2003 Smaller than Cubes
August 20, 2003 Treasures of Coincidence from Google Road
August 13, 2003 Why we Keep our Own
August 6, 2003 Drowsy (The Sudden Return of a Once Favored Genre)
July 30, 2003 The Golden State
July 23, 2003 Space (Again)
July 16, 2003 Scientific Americans
July 9, 2003 Another Moment of Destiny
July 1, 2003 The Philadelphia Story
June 25, 2003 Distracted
June 18, 2003 Brief Musings on Familial Reappraisal
June 11, 2003 A Delicate Decision of Strategic Governance
June 4, 2003 A Slippage in the Drivel Brake
May 28, 2003 Cowardice (The Subtle Craft of Circuitous Excuse)
May 21, 2003 The Majestic Force of Equalizing Rules
May 14, 2003 The Way of Things
May 7, 2003 Leper Season
April 30, 2003 Quickly Before I Snooze
April 23, 2003 The Ghosts of Disequilibrium
April 16, 2003 Your Fearless Judeo-Christian Good-Time Sport
April 9, 2003 The Sassy Confluence of Sport, Law and Policy
April 2, 2003 A Post Animal Planet Narrative (The Subtle Gradations of Fault)
March 26, 2003 Musings on Who We Are
March 19, 2003 The Varied Strains of Miscalculation
March 12, 2003 Hazy (Memories of the Day)
March 5, 2003 Showing Off For Family
February 26, 2003 A Fond Farewell to One of Ours
February 19, 2003 Derivative of Self
February 12, 2003 Some Light Midweek Reading
February 5, 2003 The Peril of Changes in Process
January 29, 2003 A Different Style of Game-Building
January 22, 2003 Trade-Offs
January 15, 2003 Abstractions
January 8, 2003 Self-derivation (Sleepy, Brief and Jejune)
January 1, 2003 Sport, Posterity and the DNA

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2002!

December 25, 2002 The Constant Challenge of Organic renewal
December 18, 2002 Discursive (Clowns, Christ and the Glory of Astroturf)
December 11, 2002 The Strains of Organic Growth
December 4, 2002 Callipygian (The Anatomy of Triumph)
November 27, 2002 Musings on Freedom and Fowl
November 20, 2002 A Tale of Valiant Brain
November 13, 2002 The Mysteries of Divergent Dedication
November 6, 2002 Yuck (Post-election Drivel on Power and Sport)
October 30, 2002 Another Argument for Reinstitutionalization
October 23, 2002 A Relic of Note
October 16, 2002 Progeny
October 9, 2002 Droll (The Subtle Confluence of Sport and Livestock)
October 2, 2002 The Upside of Lame
September 23, 2002 Your Good-Time Cervical Secretions Sport
September 18, 2002 A Stirring Discovery in an Area of Core Interest
September 11, 2002 The Varied Strains of Valor
September 4, 2002 A Narrative on the Mores of Persnickety Hitters
August 28, 2002 The Muddled Dialectic of Class
August 21, 2002 Vital Notes on the Public Health
August 14, 2002 Foreplay
August 7, 2002 The Perils of Delegation
July 31, 2002 Clipped (Another Hero for Tomorrow's Youth)
July 24, 2002 The Esoteric Roots of White Collar Naughtiness
July 15, 2002 Musings on the Cadaver issue
July 7, 2002 Le Role des Philosophes
July 1, 2002 Your 4th-of-July Enligtenment Sport
June 26, 2002 PolySci
June 19, 2002 The Subtle Erosion of Adjectivial Borders
June 12, 2002 Afghanistan
June 5, 2002 Worried (Another Letter Against Nuclear War)
May 29, 2002 Cracking the Challenge of Equity
May 22, 2002 Urban (Cantankerous Musings on a Match Deferred)
May 15, 2002 Verbiage
May 8, 2002 A Desperate Appeal of Woe and Hope
May 1, 2002 Another Forgotten Hero
April 24, 2002 Strains of the Contemplative Athlete
April 17, 2002 A Brazen Transgression Exposed
April 10, 2002 The Turning Point
April 3, 2002 Studs, Queens and Clocks
March 27, 2002 Guilt, Poetic Liscence and the Subtle Lessons of Easter
March 20, 2002 God (A Cogent case for Persistence)
March 12, 2002 Thread (A Rare Excursion in Shamesless Promotion)
March 6, 2002 Specialized
February 27, 2002 Numbers so Stark (The Cruel Revelations of Software)
February 20, 2002 DC (The Shattered Myth of Indispensibility)
February 6, 2002 Kin, Email and Principle
January 30, 2002 Naked
January 23, 2002 The Eerie Confluence of Sport and Sin
January 16, 2002 A Gratuitous Excursion into Current Events
January 9, 2002 The Lynchpin of Rennaisance
January 2, 2002 The Logic of Persistance

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2001!

December 25, 2001 The Stirring Relevance of Scripture
December 19, 2001 Nuts (The Moral of Self-preservation)
December 12, 2001 Bitter (Climate and Contingencies)
December 5, 2001 The Tyrannies of Mud
November 28, 2001 A Tale of ’Mornin Blue (The Soggy Soils of Skepticism)
November 19, 2001 Laconic (Just 10 More Years to Fluency!)
November 12, 2001 Adieu
November 6, 2001 Hurling
October 31, 2001 The Roots of Changing Policy
October 23, 2001 Brief Notes on Technology and the Crown
October 17, 2001 Tales of the Aerobic Shtetl
October 10, 2001 The Curse of Heroism Denied
October 3, 2001 Mysteries of the Recreational Mind
September 25, 2001 The Elephant in Our Living Room
September 18, 2001 Softball: Vigilance and Idiocy
September 11, 2001 Briefly…
September 5, 2001 Blabber
August 30, 2001 The Strain of the Familial
August 22, 2001 Quickly (A Notable Failure in the Craft of Self-Censorship)
August 15, 2001 Drama
August 7, 2001 The Strain of Competing Virtues
August 1, 2001 Judaica (The Subtleties that Dominate)
July 24, 2001 Children
July 18, 2001 The Varied Textures of Proximity
July 10, 2001 A Hopeful Missive from My Northwest Gulag
July 2, 2001 Game + Picnic! (Your Declaration of Independence Sport)
June 25, 2001 The Smoldering Cauldron of Aerobic Endearment
June 19, 2001 Another Forgotten Hero
June 12, 2001 What Might Have Been
June 6, 2001 Skeptic (The Circuitous Path Linking Disparate Worlds)
May 29, 2001 Congenital (A Sobering Realization in Recreational Ethics)
May 23, 2001 The Varied Roads to Injury
May 15, 2001 Family
May 8, 2001 Optics (Daydreams in the Past Conditional)
May 2, 2001 Romance
April 24, 2001 Sentiment and Science
April 17, 2001 An Asterisk of Note
April 11, 2001 Discursive
April 4, 2001 The Brittle Texture of Athletic Historiography
March 28, 2001 Resumption (Subtle Symptoms of a Rotting Mind)
March 14, 2001 Screwed
March 6, 2001 6.8 (A Nuanced Appraisal of Inner Strength)
February 28, 2001 The Virtues of Patience
February 20, 2001 The Tradeoffs of Sensitive Leadership
February 14, 2001 DNA
February 7, 2001 The Strain of Separation
January 28, 2001 The Logician’s Challenge of Cause and Effect
January 23, 2001 Feisty (The Varied Flavors of Social Concern)
January 16, 2001 Mea Culpa
January 9, 2001 Musings
January 2, 2001 Prospects for the New Year

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 2000!

December 27, 2000 The Subtle Scales of Value
December 19, 2000 The "Meaning" of Christmas
December 12, 2000 Distractions
December 6, 2000 The Stress of Evolving Law
November 28, 2000 The Unforeseen Risks of "Competitive Adjustment"
November 20, 2000 The Cures of Indulgence
November 15, 2000 The Ironic Confluence of Prophecy and Error
November 7, 2000 Strictly Non-Partisan
November 1, 2000 Your Good-Time Electoral College Sport
October 25, 2000 Dates That Matter
October 18, 2000 Sorrow of the Rootless
October 11, 2000 The Varying Roads to Injury
October 4, 2000 A Tribe That Roams
September 27, 2000 Sydney
September 20, 2000 Virtue
September 13, 2000 Shift in Recreational Zeitgeist
September 5, 2000 Hobos (Musings on a Transition Under Strain)
August 28, 2000 Hard Sell (The Woe of Imminent Loss)
August 23, 2000 The Curse of Recessive Genes
August 15, 2000 The Cosmic Confluence of Things Far and Gone
August 9, 2000 Aspirin
August 2, 2000 The Strained Conjectures of Historical Causation
July 26, 2000 Chicks
July 19, 2000 Psychobabble
July 11, 2000 The Chilling Risk of Really Stupid Flight Paths
July 5, 2000 Bummer and Renewal
June 27, 2000 England
June 20, 2000 Short
June 14, 2000 Diplomacy
June 7, 2000 Dubious Heroes
May 30, 2000 The Sacred Confluence of Time and Sport
May 23, 2000 The Gratuitous Ribbing of Honorable Folk
May 16, 2000 The Contagion of Underachievement
May 3, 2000 Dangers Most Foul
April 26, 2000 The Moral Dilemma of Excessive Dominance
April 19, 2000 The Elasticity of Reason
April 12, 2000 The Challenge of Scales
April 5, 2000 The Subtle Craft of Wooing
March 30, 2000 Time, Maize and Faith
March 22, 2000 Time to Reconsider
March 15, 2000 Glorious Sun, Dryer of Mud
March 8, 2000 Soggy (What Sicko Forces Would taunt us so?)
March 1, 2000 Athletics and Logic
February 22, 2000 Growth from Adversity
February 16, 2000 No Time for Pleasantries
February 9, 2000 Brevity and Awe
February 2, 2000 Governance
January 25, 2000 The Circle Game
January 18, 2000 The Enduring Imapct of Tactical Thought
January 11, 2000 The Eternal Parodox of Empathy
January 4, 2000 Your Primary Source of 21st Century Recreational Solace

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 1999!

December 28, 1999 A Brazen Gamble on the Glories of Normalcy
December 21, 1999 The Precarious Task of Biblical Scholarship
December 8, 1999 The Varied Paths to Fame
December 1, 1999 Kosher
November 19, 1999 A Hurried Appeal
November 17, 1999 The Curious Scope of Social Endeavor
November 10, 1999 A Radical Breakout form the Paradigm of Appeal
November 2, 1999 The Continued Divergence of Equity and Score
October 26, 1999 The Ethical Strain of Rules so Unjust
The Hazards of Play in Ominous Times
October 7, 1999 A Brief Appeal to those on the Fence
October 5, 1999 Pain
The Taint of a Habit Scorned
The Wounds of Familial Sacrifice
September 15, 1999 The Arbitrary Sting of service Cut Short
September 10, 1999 The Broadening Range of Potential Honorees
Your Proletariat Good-Time Games
Jewels of the Early Years
To Grieve and Resume
August 11, 1999 The Ceaseless Process of Organic Reconfiguration
The Varied Strains of Historical Causation
July 27 1999 Lessons to Ponder
July 23 1999 The Quiet Dignity Grovelling Deferred
The Harsh Astringent of Codified Restriction
July 16, 1999 Dust
July 14, 1999 The Vision Thing
July 7, 1999 The Mysteries of Human Interaction
July 2, 1999 The Public Health
June 30, 1999 Zeitgeist and Sauce
June 16, 1999 Lagniappes
June 15, 1999 Bones
June 11, 1999 Another Shameless Plug
June 9, 1999 The Varieities of Legacy
June 4, 1999 Values
June 1, 1999 Land and Hormones ("Hosed Again")
May 28, 1999 Decisions
May 24, 1999 To Chart one's own Path
May 19, 1999 Streaks
Ethics
May 12, 1999 Mistakes
May 4, 1999 The Many Textures of Heroism
April 30, 1999 The Workers' Sport
April 28, 1999 The Lessons of History
April 23, 1999 Whatever It Takes
April 19, 1999 Reflections
April 14, 1999 Growth Through Defeat
Diplomacy and Glory
March 30, 1999 The Planet's Game
March 25, 1999 Are We not All the Children of Sandy Koufax?
March 23, 1999 Purpose, Mettle and Brevity
Where Have all the Flowers Gone?
March 17, 1999 Shame and Reflection
March 14, 1999 To Rise up and Say "Where Noah went, I too Shall Explore."
Historical Perspectives
The Unceasing Struggle
February 24, 1999 A Principled Stand for Aerobic Renewal
February 22, 1999 The Diversity of Aerobic Desire
February 12, 1999 To Honor those who Paved the Way
A Plea for Sanity
February 4, 1999 A Change in Venue
Drivel enough, and They Shall Come
January 22, 1999 Moisture so Foul
January 20, 1999 The Rewards of Being Timely
January 15, 1999 What You May Have Overlooked
January 13, 1999 Your Recreational Bridge to the 3rd Milleniuml

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 1998!

December 25, 1998 The Moral Obligations of Membership
December 23, 1998 The Christmas Sport
December 15, 1998 Another Giant to Honor
December 9, 1998 To Rise above the Fray
December 1, 1998 The Caloric Burn of a Swing at the Bat
November 19, 1998 The Sullen Downside of Assuming Leadership
November 19, 1998 The World is Watching
November 18, 1998 To Fear not the Darkness
November 10, 1998 To Rise Above the Cowardice
November 3, 1998 The Nocturnal Allure
October 27, 1998 Chocolate
Astroturf and Pancakes
October 2, 1998 The Harsh Astringent of Maintaining Organizational Credibility
October 2, 1998 To Stantch the Inertia, Waster of Muscle
September 29, 1998 The Endless Quest for Municipal Acceptance
September 11, 1998 Recruitment with Honor
September 7, 1998 Athletic Wonder in Proper Perspective
August 28, 1998 Oasis of Joy in a World Gone Wacko
August 26, 1998 Loved by all, from Guanzghou to Fresno
Friday Morning China Time
July 21, 1998 The Curve Ball of Freedom
Destiny at the Mound
Blending the Appeal
June 30, 1998 The Historian's Sport
June 26, 1998 The Streak Continues
June 23, 1998 A bit More than the Usual Drivel
June 17, 1998 Le Gloire d'un Sport sans Limites
June 11, 1998 To Nurture the Sparrows
June 10, 1998 Return to the Promised land
June 8, 1998 The Hinge of fate
June 3, 1998 The Perils of Vanity
May 19, 1998 Humble Folk Doing Glorious Work
May 8, 1998 Anything to Cajole a Crowd
April 24, 1998 Same Time/Different Place
April 21, 1998 The Good Earth
A Question of Priorities
March 20, 1998 The Edge of a Game Denied
March 18, 1998 The Only Hope You Really Have
To wallow no more
January 13, 1998 Is not Sport the Point?
January 6, 1998 Gibberish to Galvanize

Reminisce about the Glory Days of 1997!

November 28, 1997 Every Commit an Act of Principle
November 21, 1997 Awaiting Your Reticent Love
October 28, 1997 The Imperative of Flexibility
Finding Purpose in Historical Context and Fictional Delerium
October 6, 1997 A Spiritual Perspective
A promised land of our own
September 3, 1997 The Cantata of the Bitter Herbs (Part 2)
August 27, 1997 The Fight for Justice
August 8th, 1997 Do it for the King (Because He no longer can)
August 4, 1997 New Time/New Rules (The Velvet Jackboot of a Tormented Secular Humanist)
July 31, 1997 A Last Ditch Friday Morning Appeal to Conscience
July 27, 1997 Theoretical Observations
July 14, 1997 The Courage to Change
July 9, 1997 The Return
July 7, 1997 The Tyranny of Arbitrary Allocation of Public Resources
July 4, 1997 Cyberspace and the Battle of Lexington
Softball, Commits, and an Appeal to Legacy
June 29, 1997 The Call of Electronic Democracy
June 27, 1997 The Fragility of Athletic Democracy
June 24, 1997 Transcending Sloth
May 27, 1997 No Shame in a Triple
May 19, 1997 The Character Issue
May 5th, 1997 A Noble Calling