Americans love a good underdog story. The latest example of this is playing out now in the World Cup, where the quest for the gritty, underdog American team to overcome low expectations and long odds has captivated many sports fans across the nation that usually ignore the sport
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” I don’t know if the 19th-century American writer Elbert Hubbard was a dad, but if he was, I am pretty sure he said that quote shortly after returning from a family vacation to the beach
A bad trade can haunt a team for a very long time. For decades, any Red Sox fan would readily tell you about “The Curse of the Bambino” that haunted their team as a result of trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees for cash back in 1919. For the next 86 years, the Yankees won 27 titles before the Red Sox finally broke “the curse” when they won the 2004 World Series
"Turn out the lights, the party's over." Years ago, Don “Dandy Don” Meredith used to sing these old Willie Nelson lyrics in the final moments of a Monday Night Football game once the losing team was out of options and the outcome was obvious to all. Dandy Don knew exactly when to let this song fly to let that national audience know that the game was, for all intents and purposes, over.
“Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.” President John F. Kennedy said this in his first inaugural address, and it is a good reminder for us all, especially as legislative session draws to a close. Over the last few months, contentious policy fights and emotional debates have filled the chamber floors and committee rooms. The issues facing Louisiana are usually easy to identify, yet often quite controversial to implement – this year was no exception. Tempers have flared and nerves are raw.
Summertime is right around the corner. This is the last week of school for my kids and I can tell they mentally already made that switch to summer vacation. Sure, they are still physically going to school every day, but you can see it in their eyes that their focus and effort on schoolwork has shifted to daydreaming about summer plans and sleeping in
Many things run through your head when you are hanging off the side of a building in a driving rainstorm 308 feet off the ground. This is exactly where I found myself recently while helping to promote adoption awareness and efforts to find homes for 300 deserving children currently in state custody. The event was called “Over the Edge for Adoption,” and it involved people like me volunteering to rappel down the side of Baton Rouge’s second tallest building.
We all need a wake-up call from time to time. It happens to the best of us. Sometimes we lose focus of what is important in life. Other times we develop tunnel vision on a certain issue and run down the wrong path without fully
understanding the consequences. In many of these moments, family, friends, or some other trusted ally, will step in, and put us back on track
Tax Freedom Day, calculated annually by the Tax Foundation, is the day on which Americans have earned enough money to pay this year’s federal, state and local taxes. Of course, Tax Freedom Day is something of a fiction, because most people pay their taxes throughout the year, via their paychecks
Our addiction to lawsuits is hurting us in more ways than we realize. This infliction is rampant, expensive and comes in all shapes and sizes. It takes the form of embracing laws thatrestrict our citizens’ access to a jury trial while allowing public entities to cut contingency fee legal contracts behind closed doors
