By Buddy Early, March 2021 Issue. Some time ago, I ignited a firestorm on social media when I said I would most appreciate a viable presidential candidate under 50. Holy [...]
By Buddy Early, February 2021 Issue. Let’s dive right in: we did not become better people. I thought we would as we navigated Coronavirus. I even wrote a column about it. [...]
By Buddy Early, January 2021 Issue. There is an unwritten rule in football you’re expected to follow when your team is up by several touchdowns with a few minutes [...]
By Buddy Early, December 2020 Issue. There’s a common sentiment that has been repeated since the beginning of last summer, when protests over police brutality flared up in [...]
By Buddy Early, November 2020 Issue. Earlier this summer, at the height of protests regarding police brutality, one of my (former) friends started circulating a racist and [...]
By Buddy Early, October 2020 Issue. Comedian, Actor. Delightful Human Being. Those are words one might use to describe local comic Jill Kimmel. Mostly because those are her [...]
By Buddy Early, October 2020 Issue. I’ve noticed one of the more popular things to do on social media is grumble about how others are using their social media. It works [...]
By Buddy Early, September 2020 Issue. One of the tenets that Americans have lived by has always been that we will take care of one another in times of need. This idea has [...]
By Buddy Early, September 2020 Issue. When I started writing this column a few years ago, I told the then-editor I wanted it to be light, positive, and uplifting. I also said [...]
By Buddy Early, August 2020 Issue. There’s something that has been gnawing at me for the better part of a decade. You see, in the early 2000s I served as “the voice” of [...]
By Buddy Early, July 2020 Issue. Not even the most inventive Hollywood minds could script a three-and-a-half year run like we’ve had. Sure, individually the phenomena of [...]
By Buddy Early, June 2020 Issue. There’s something wrong with me. I’m not talking about my inability to wink or my obsession with people fake-eating hamburgers in [...]
By Buddy Early, May 2020 Issue. As I am writing this, I have been quarantined in my apartment due to the Coronavirus pandemic for, oh, I guess about six months. Actually [...]
By Buddy Early, April 2020 Issue. This column ought to come with a warning: you may interpret this as one of those “things used to be better back in the day” meditations. [...]
By Buddy Early, March 2020 Issue. When I was in my 20s and early 30s, I suppose I was a bit of a barfly. You could’ve found me in any one of a half-dozen watering holes [...]