By Bob Gaydos
A bookie was owed a lot of money, apparently, and Ohtani did, or didn’t try to pay him off for his interpreter, but didn’t notice a bunch of money missing from his bank account. Or something.

By Bob Gaydos
And that’s really the point, people. Not how old Biden is, but how capable and competent he is compared to the other guy, “my predecessor” as Biden cleverly put it.

By Bob Gaydos
When your hometown newspaper ends home delivery and The New York Times mistakes the forest for the trees, who connects the dots?

By Bob Gaydos
Confused, I looked around and heard pretty much the same conversation on every TV business show, so I figured they got paid to talk to each other about Nvidia and inflation, but weren’t interested in telling me anything useful. Certainly not about business.

By Bob Gaydos
When I get my mail these days, I notice a certain urgency and consistency to it. These are people who feel the same as I do and are doing all they can to preserve and protect what was established in Philadelphia 248 years ago. Our democracy is at stake. This is our reality.

By Bob Gaydos
Navolny, Kansas City, Trump’s massive fraud, No Labels nonsense: Some mysteries are easier to solve than others.

By Bob Gaydos
We admitted we were powerless over Trump, that our party had become unmanageable. Step One. The GOP’s only hope.

By Bob Gaydos
Haley presents a dilemma for those Republicans who can’t stand Trump, but are too afraid to say so because they need the votes of the aggrieved, angry whites who make up MAGA, the volatile base of the GOP, but who don’t outnumber the relatively sane voters populating the rest of the electorate.

By Bob Gaydos
From Pine Bush to Iowa to Denmark, the week was full of mystery.

By Bob Gaydos
On a positive note, if Dry January results in a more responsible general approach to alcohol consumption (as brewers and distillers are obliged to promote), it has to be good for society’s overall health. Excessive alcohol consumption contributes to a multitude of societal and health problems as well as highway and other accidents.