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Rich Mayfield: Life imitates sports imitates life

Standing with 40,000 of my closest friends at Wrigley Field a few weeks ago, I came to an insightful, if disturbing, awareness of the parallels that can be drawn between the faithful fans of baseballs most consistent chokers and the emerging worldview ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  13 Oct 2008
Related Topics: St. Louis Cardinals

Rich Mayfield: A crisis of biblical proportions

If you want a theological analysis of the current financial crisis youll have to go back to the beginning and I mean the very beginning with Mr. Adam and his lovely wife Eve. Whether you understand the goings on in the Garden of Eden as historical ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  4 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Securities and Exchange Commission

Rich Mayfield: The color of crisis

No worries. You say the $700 billion bail-out kept you up last night? Youre stressing over the salaries of the mismanagers on Wall Street who, it appears, will make out like the bandits they most surely are? Are you afraid to take a peek at your 401K ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  27 Sep 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Al Gore

Rich Mayfield: Free speech keeps us free

Perusing the news from Beijing put me in mind of a passage from Joseph Hellers fine evocation of the absurdities inherent in the institutional mindset: There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  30 Aug 2008
Related Topics: United Nations,  Robert Mugabe

Rich Mayfield: Righting the Christian Right

Much of the buzz around Saddleback Churchs conversation with the two presidential candidates last Saturday night is centered on the apparent consensus that the clear winner was neither Barack Obama nor John McCain, but the moderator, Pastor Rick ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  24 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Rick Warren,  John McCain,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Monica Goodling

Rich Mayfield: Hollow is the deceitful ritual

Over three decades spent in the ritual business gives me a certain perspective on the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics. The spectacular show revealed much of what is good about ritual and some of what is very, very bad. I expect others ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  16 Aug 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party

Rich Mayfield: No. 1 spots the U.S. doesn't want

All eyes are looking to the Far East this weekend as the Beijing Olympics begins. Fans from around the world will be rooting their athletes on to victory. By the end of the competition, proud patriots from 205 countries will have had the chance to ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  9 Aug 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush

Rich Mayfield: Ungodly acts of men

Poor Richards reminder that A penny saved is a penny earned must have millions of mortgage-stretched borrowers nodding their heads in sad agreement these days. And whoever decided Honesty is the best policy, somehow never considered political ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  2 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Randy Brown,  Rowan Williams

Rich Mayfield: The path to Curmudgeonville

It was time for my semi-annual lunch with my friend who is poles apart from me politically, but whose wartime service as a Marine in Vietnam gives him far more conservative credence than the chicken-hawks who parlayed their incompetence into the ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  27 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Joe Lieberman,  John McCain,  Rush Limbaugh,  White House,  George W. Bush

Rich Mayfield: Gasp! A terrorist wades in Lake Dillon

Apparently, these are fearful times and the Denver Water Board has responded by closing one of the only three east-west roads in all of Summit County. The fact that this particular road courses atop the largest earthen dam in the Colorado High Country ...

From RICH MAYFIELD, Vail Daily,  19 Jul 2008

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