Michael Champion

My father was born 100 years ago today (he lived for 90 of them). He retired to Palm Beach County, and spent his days golfing and listening to Fox and talk radio, so there's no doubt how he would be voting if he was still around. But I've been pondering what we can learn from his cohort ...

So what do I take away from pondering this? Mainly that if politics is sports/entertainment, there's no point in trying to argue about facts. It's about stories -- can the coach recruit new talent, or tweak the lineup to break a losing streak? Can yesterdays hero morph into tomorrow's villain?

My father was born 100 years ago today (he lived for 90 of them). He retired to Palm Beach County, and spent his days golfing and listening to Fox and talk radio, so there's no doubt how he would be voting if he was still around. But I've been pondering what we can learn from his cohort ...

... and demonize the other team, not because you are convinced they are bad, but because they are are, well, the OTHER team. I'm sure it would have been as hard to convince him to oppose Trump as it would be to convince my fellow U-Michigan alumni to root for Ohio State.😈

My father was born 100 years ago today (he lived for 90 of them). He retired to Palm Beach County, and spent his days golfing and listening to Fox and talk radio, so there's no doubt how he would be voting if he was still around. But I've been pondering what we can learn from his cohort ...

... One could imagine someone feeling gratitude and wanting to reciprocate such a gift (cf. emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se...), but he saw it as a gamble that the government lost and he won. Not an exactly enlightened perspective, but typical of the 1950s culture my generation grew up in....

My father was born 100 years ago today (he lived for 90 of them). He retired to Palm Beach County, and spent his days golfing and listening to Fox and talk radio, so there's no doubt how he would be voting if he was still around. But I've been pondering what we can learn from his cohort ...