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    Let’s be more than just neighbors, eh?

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    Let’s be more than just neighbors, eh?

    Much has been made of President Trump’s persistent and immature needling of America’s top ally, Canada, and his suggesting that our neighbors to the north could become our 51st state. It has led the world’s nicest folks booing our national anthem and — I hope this doesn’t alarm anyone — fights during a hockey match between Team USA and Team Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off. Fights. During a hockey match. Right there on the ice! Who’d’ve thunk it?! Of course, the U.S. anthem ain’t so great musically — not to mention it’s from Francis Scott Key’s gloating poem about […]

    Politicians’ latest game in D.C. is a pain in the ice

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    Politicians’ latest game in D.C. is a pain in the ice

    Sorry to interrupt your “work” as you try to keep an eye on that pivotal March Madness first-round matchup between Grand Canyon University and Sewage Ditch Community College, but that’s hardly the biggest sports story of the month.  Nor did the biggest sports story come from the NFL Combine, where Southwest Mississippi guard Bubba Squashmeyer ran a 2:04.45, which would have set a new record had it been the New York City Marathon and not the 40-yard dash. Fortunately, he did set a new physical measurement mark with a 95-inch neck, breaking the record held for more than four decades […]