When Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst traded up four spots to select QB Jordan Love with the 26th pick of the 2020 NFL Draft, it showed that he wanted to build a bridge to the future — a future without Aaron Rodgers. That future may be closer than anyone previously thought. Last week Adam SchefterContinue reading “It’s Time For The Packers To Trade Aaron Rodgers”
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The Hope(lessness) of Draft Day
We made it, fellow sports fans. NFL Draft Day. The nonstop, nonsensical First Take segments about QB hand size, forty-yard dash times, and roshambo contests are finally, mercifully, coming to an end. No more mock drafts! No more asinine misdirection! No more racist player evaluations! Soon, we can go back to arguing about Russell Wilson’sContinue reading “The Hope(lessness) of Draft Day”
Past Mistakes, Present Absurdities
If 2020 was the Year of the Unprecedented, 2021 may well go down as the Year of the Absurd. Mr. Potato Head is now just “Potato Head.” Lola Bunny now looks like – gasp! – a normal, humanoid bunny, which I can’t believe is a sentence I just typed with a straight face. And inContinue reading “Past Mistakes, Present Absurdities”
Refuel and Reinvigorate: What Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Can Achieve
Originally published at the Concorde International Review in November 2020. In late September 2019, in a world blissfully unacquainted with COVID-19 and social distancing, representatives of the nations of the world gathered in New York City for the 74th Session of the United Nations. A result of the Allies’ victory over the Axis Powers inContinue reading “Refuel and Reinvigorate: What Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Can Achieve”
Impeach Him. Now.
I’m not much of a crier, to be honest. I hardly ever cry at movies — though on a recent rewatch of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King I definitely teared up at the “you bow to no one” moment. The occasional episode of The West Wing gets me bleary-eyed, but whoContinue reading “Impeach Him. Now.”
Five Thoughts: What Is It Going To Take?
This should have been so easy. This should have been a lay-up, a tap-in, a chip-shot, a meat ball, pick whatever sports metaphor you want. This election was here for the taking for the Democrats, and while they managed to reclaim the White House they will spend the next four years ruing missed chances andContinue reading “Five Thoughts: What Is It Going To Take?”
Five Thoughts: Slide to the Left, Slide to the Right
There’s an old Greek proverb: After the war is over, make alliances. Ancient proverbs, however, are all Greek to the Democrat Party. Rather than forming new friendships in the wake of a hard-fought 2020 election campaign, the members of the Democratic Caucus have turned their swords upon each other. Even before all the ballots haveContinue reading “Five Thoughts: Slide to the Left, Slide to the Right”
Five Thoughts: What a Load of Poll-S**t
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. That’s how a lot of Democrats are feeling about pollsters and election forecasters. In 2016, polls suggested that Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump — albeit narrowly. In 2020, polls pointed towards a Democratic victory. This time, they were right — but TrumpContinue reading “Five Thoughts: What a Load of Poll-S**t”
Five Thoughts: Trump (Un)Deterred
Donald Trump was never going to go gently into that good night. “Rage, rage against the dying of my presidential grift and exploitation of American democracy” was always going to be his exit strategy, however begrudging the exit might be. Oh, sure, he’s launched legal challenges in a handful of states. But those challenges areContinue reading “Five Thoughts: Trump (Un)Deterred”
Five Thoughts on the Election: Restoration
The passage of time has been distorted in 2020. March took a century. April and May collectively lasted nine hours. And last week, Tuesday night dragged on for four extra days, until finally, on what should have been Saturday morning, the calendar was restored to normalcy. America’s long election night was over. And Joe BidenContinue reading “Five Thoughts on the Election: Restoration”
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