Recent content by Jim Gosger

How about Major Taylor the "Worcester Whirlwind". Being a World Champion on the track should count for something. OK, it was 1899.

Well I always choose Australian Karen over British Emily on my GPS. So you've got that going for you. (It's a Garmin, btw, so you know it's clean.)

What you don't understand is that the name calling and hateful language gives you away.

Well, let's start with this. The previous poster said that the LAF doesn't use its money wisely. Of course, he did not provide any evidence of this. Somehow I think that my fellow cancer patients at Dana Farber would agree that providing the funds for the clinic that treats our cancer is a...

But in fact you don't tell the truth. You think you are being truthful, but like all cynics you look at life "through a glass darkly." In fact your cynicism blinds you to a more careful and thoughtful expression of the truth. It is the vitriol in your language that gives it away. It is...

In fact it is the cynics who are self-delusional. They aren't calling a spade a spade. They, like you, emphasize the negative to the exclusion of anything else and apply their own motivations to others as a means of denigrating their work. It's worse (and more false) than the hero worship you...

Cynicism is an atrophy of the soul. One of the favorite sports of the celebrity media or those who follow them is to build up athletic heros to a super human level only to find that they are human and flawed. When this happens they inevitably find much joy in ripping them from the same...