Major League Baseball is running an ad which uses an excerpt from the movie “Field of Dreams” to indicate that baseball is the constant while the rest of America is being continually destroyed and rebuilt. That’s a nice thought, but is it true?
When I was young, the saying, “Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse,” sounded pretty cool. Then, I started seeing young people die, and I decided maybe suffering an early death wasn’t so cool after all.
Every time I walk past our yucca trees in the front yard, I think about falling in, face first. Let’s say I’m walking in the yard, not paying attention, and I trip over some discarded beer can that a nice passer-by has casually tossed in the (lawn) grass. I fall face first into the yucca trees. Thanks, but don’t hand me a mirror. A thousand stitches won’t look pretty. Makes me want to dig them up. The points of the yucca’s sword-shaped leaves are has hard and pointy as any saber. Falling into a yucca tree, or trees, as is the case at our house, would be like running into a dozen men with drawn swords.
It doesn’t look like the new gun-carry bill will get passed this legislative session up in Austin, but the lieutenant governor and former radio talking head Dan Patrick hasn’t given up trying to get it done (see Texas Tribune story, page xx).
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