So the January Sprint is upon us in just one more weekend. I have, in a row, our own Newton South tournament, the big Lexington Winter Invitational, Columbia, then Silver Lake & the NFL Congress together, then CFL qualifiers, and then Harvard. And then a weekend off. I have to get started on some [...]
The world of Public Forum is confronted this month by a particularly Lincoln-Douglas style resolution. The rez declares that civil disobedience in a democracy is a good “weapon in the fight for justice” or some such bombast. I rolled my eyes and realized there was major work ahead of us. Nobody around Massachusetts seemed to [...]
Thankfully I’m not traveling this weekend. I’m not going to either Glenbrooks or Villiger; I have more than my fill of overgrown national tournaments (the former) or quaint traditional tournaments that never seem to improve (the latter). I’m also failing to show the one last gasp and fizzle of school spirit remaining in my alma [...]
I’m not bitching about it, though, given that I was ready to come in and put in a day’s effort anyway. I like getting things done while no one else is around, since it actually happens when no one else is around. This weekend was the Gracia Burkill Memorial, a nice tournament at Natick that [...]
In part of my identity that baffles about 2/3rds of my friends, I’m a sports fan. Worse, I’m a Boston sports fan, which means I share that curious mix of rabidity combined with scarring, searing memories of crying when the ball went between Buckner’s legs (I was 8), and similar events. As a kid, apart [...]