The Games Behind the Olympic Games

He’s Not a Hitter, He’s a Baby Sitter
By Tom Purcell on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Exclusive Excerpt from: “Comical Sense: A Lone Humorist Takes on a World Gone Nutty!” by Tom Purcell “Let’s go, he can’t hit, he can’t hit.” “Stop the game! How dare you suggest that the batter, an innocent 12-year-old child who only wants to make contact with the ball, cannot hit! Have you considered how your ridicule will harm his self-esteem? As the umpire of this game, I forbid you to utter such taunts again. Play ...
Immaturity and the Modern Male
By Tom Purcell on Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Get this: A new study finds men don’t mature until age 43. If only my father could have enjoyed such a luxury. Great Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that the study, commissioned by Nickelodeon UK, examined differences in maturity between men and women. It found both sexes agree that men are far less mature and women reach full maturity 11 years sooner. Some examples: Men still have their mothers do their laundry, laugh when they ...
For Father’s Day
By Tom Purcell on Sunday, June 16th, 2013
Exclusive Excerpt from: “An Apple Core, a Toilet: Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood” by Tom Purcell I don’t know what I was thinking: In 1973, when I was 11, I flushed an apple core down the toilet, an action I would come to regret. As it went, my father had remodeled our basement into a family room. He installed the inexpensive pine paneling common to the times. He also built a small bathroom, which would ...
Countering Government Intimidation
By Tom Purcell on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
“Admit it. You’re a dirty rotten conservative!” “That’s false. I eat tofu for breakfast.” “But we found your name on a donor list of a group that sought 501(c)(4) status to promote the founding principles of the U.S. Constitution!” “You’re mistaking me for someone else with the same name. I listen to Barry Manilow records.” “We also found your name on another donor list of a group seeking 501(c)(4) status that wanted to promote the ...
The Games Behind the Olympic Games
By Tom Purcell on Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Washington, D.C., is in the grip of scandals, the economy is stumbling and a host of other challenges are weighing me down — which is why I prefer to dwell on more obscure subjects, such as a battle raging behind the scenes over the 2020 Olympics. According to the Toronto Star, the International Olympic Committee shocked the world recently when it dropped wrestling from its list of core sports for the 2020 games — in ...