2020

Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.goerie.com/opinion/20200729/matthew-rink-tom-ridge-is-having-moment I met Tom Ridge in 1995. I was a kid then, tagging along with my family to some event at the Barber Center where my grandma worked. Ridge was running for governor of Pennsylvania following six terms as our U.S. congressman, shaking hands and […]

S*** the President Says – 7/27/2020

Ladies and gentlemen, behold, some s*** the president said during the previous week: Our president tweets something like this a couple times each week, but it’s never been true. In fact, an AP poll this week showed the president’s Republican Party approval at just 81%, quite a low number for an incumbent president in the […]

Baseball – Something good happened in Erie, 7/24/2020

When times are hard, I often find my mind racing, entertaining way too many thoughts and scenarios all ending in some type of disaster. What helps me is to take a deep breath and slow everything down. Even if just for a minute. Deep breath. There, that’s better. Life isn’t so hard, at least not […]

S*** the President Says – 7/20/2020

Ladies and gentlemen, behold, our president sat down for an interview with Fox News’ journalistic Lone Ranger, Chris Wallace, this week. What resulted was a certified s***show. Here, then, is some of that s*** (though I do recommend watching the entire interview here): “First of all, I’m not losing, because those are fake polls. They […]

Return of the Police Athletic League – Something good happened in Erie, 7/17/2020

Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good stories of the week: https://www.goerie.com/news/20200714/erie-police-athletic-league-aims-to-strengthen-community-relations Especially on the topic of law enforcement, we’re all in need of some good news to ease the tension. In general, I find the terms “pro cop” or “anti cop” to be reductive to the point of meaningless, but those terms are typically what […]