Ben Raskin

Author: Ben Raskin

  • Putting Up with the Holidays

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    The Xmas decorations went up last Sunday. They’re kept in a series of boxes, more like oversized Tupperware containers, in an unfinished room in the basement. We call it the Dirt Room because of the dirt. It’s some place you’d never go into until less you were intent on retrieving something. I pulled out the…

  • The Five Justins

    The Five Justins

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    I got a nice purple hat. That’s about all I can say regarding Utah’s 121–88 loss to Indiana. It was a drubbing. They beat us like rented mules. Skinned us alive. Took our virgins, burnt down our city and left without a scratch. I blame Justin. We don’t know his last name or where he’s…

  • Creed IIa

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    Yep, I finally saw it. Creed II, or algebraically [Rocky 2 + Rocky 4 / Creed]. It was something else. Neither fish or fowl and certainly not much of a boxing movie. What I loved about the first Creed was the story mimicked Michael B. Jordan’s abs, lean and mean. Over the course of two…

  • The World’s Worst Carpenter

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    There’s bone spurs between his ears. That’s the only logical explanation for Trump’s behavior. There has to be some sort of blockage prohibiting him from acting honorably and conducting himself like a shaved baboon. But there is no arthroscopic surgery to remove these spurs. They have long calcified over. The man leaching his way through…

  • Election Night 2018 Notebook

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    Time to hunker down. Watched the results coming in at the Casa de Beavergoat. Made some notes and some cocktails. Tuesday, 6 November 2018 I missed watching Chris Mathews act like a lunatic. Voting for medical marijuana in state elections is ridiculous. It should be legal throughout the United States. Beto O’Rourke is a really…