Yankees Win!
A terrorist attack on New York City reverberates in the northern woods of Goshen
George Bush fired a perfect strike from the mound; this was the high point of our relationship.
The Yankees didn’t win
Every child loses his innocence, and I will tell you how I lost mine. My mother raised me on 14 acres in the woods outside Goshen, in upstate New York. We didn’t have cable television and she kept me from the Internet, encouraging me to read and explore the natural landscape.
My strongest link to the outside world was the New York Yankees. By seven, I was listening to nearly every game on the radio. On the rare occasions when the team played on one of the seven channels received by our television, I watched every moment. When the Yankees won, I ran through the fields behind our house, impersonating the iconic call of radio sportscaster John Sterling: “Theeeeeee Yankees win!” I repeated this refrain often, as the Yankees won the World Series the first three seasons I followed the team, 1998, 1999, and 2000.
My mother was not a sports fan, but she encouraged my love of the Yankees. …
Will the Crazies Kill Seattle?
How could a city with so much wealth allow conditions to erode so badly?
Progressive virtue floated on a seemingly bottomless sea of New Money.
Shit got real, and very, very dumb.
I arrived in Seattle in the summer of 2002, trying to outrun a heroin addiction that had worn out its welcome. This time — thank you, Mother Methadone! — the cure took, which was a good thing, because I was running out of westward real estate. And so I stayed, now approaching a quarter century. And rooted myself, and bougified my chakras, and shamelessly hitched a ride on the rising rocket of this city’s economic success, fueled by Microsoft and Amazon. Which is how it has come to pass that I have enjoyed a front row seat to watch, with some mysterious alchemical mix of horror and bemusement, as a city with so many advantages found so many ways to try (so far unsuccessfully) to squander them all.
Let me be clear about one thing at the outset: Seattle isn’t dying, and it’s not about to get killed by anyone. For all of my frustrations and my complaints — which are well-founded and widely …
Agricultural Digest
Quote of the Month:
“I mean everything is more expensive today than what it was a few years ago. Machinery is more expensive, land is more expensive, cash rents are more expensive, labor’s more expensive, taxes, interest rates, seed costs, fertilizer costs. I can’t find a single line-item that’s more affordable today than what it was a few years ago.”
— John Newton, Vice President of Public Policy and Economic Analysis with the American Farm Bureau
Thanks to you, Federal Reserve! Keep printing more Monopoly money to keep bailing the farmers out who are hanging on by a thread with fewer and fewer young people who are willing to start a farm and rely on your bailouts!
