Review of Sports Illustrated, December 4, 1967 issue. Those who experienced living in the U.S. in the 1960s know that mainstream sources of information were very limited then. We walked across the room to change the TV channel, and our choices pretty much consisted of the local CBS, ABC and NBC affiliates along with PBS, […]
Peggy Fleming, America’s lovely skating champion America in 1967 was still recognizably America 1.0, with the trends that eventually created today’s America 2.0 mostly suppressed until they exploded full force in 1968. Sometimes it’s good to take a break from the mass insanity taking place and seemingly getting worse by the day and take a […]
On February 15, 2003, millions of people around the world protested against the U.S. invading Iraq. Now in 2026, Washington has apparently successfully decimated any type of large-scale anti-war movement. Some twenty-three years ago, the United States government was getting ready to invade Iraq, again. The pretext for the second war against Iraq in 12 […]
Death, taxes, and the National Football League discriminating against White men are three things that can always be counted on. And the just completed annual three-day extravaganza known as the NFL Draft was no exception again this year. The number of White players drafted was unofficially 53 out of 257, or 20.6%. See, the NFL […]
Don Wassall’s Substack Long-time football fans and even casual ones likely remember or have heard names like Ryan Leaf, Heath Shuler, Tony Mandarich, Mike Mamula and others mentioned on many occasions. They were made infamous by an ESPN show on the NFL’s biggest draft busts. That show was made in the 1990s, some 30 years […]
