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After decades of impotent loathing, I finally found myself in a position to take action. I was gifted a $325 ticket to the new Yankee Stadium to see Satan's pinstriped nine play my beloved Baltimore Orioles. It turns out that $325 buys not just an excellent seat but access to the all-you-can-eat buffet in the superswanky Legends Suite. My plan was simple: eat enough so that at the end of the season, the accountants would say, "What happened on May 19? We lost so much on concessions that night that we can no longer afford...
After a survey of the rest of the buffet turned up only healthy, inexpensive options, I began to wonder where my seat was. Turns out you can't really see the game from the buffet area, and it dawned on me that I had been in a room like this before - at Foxwoods Resort Casino. During a brief foray into high-stakes gambling, a friend and I got comped and dove into a mountain of shrimp and lobster tails before stepping out into the casino jacked up on seafood and self-loathing. Well, the Legends Suite is just like that...
When I arrived at my seat - after grabbing a movie-theater-size bag of peanut M&Ms ($5) to tide me over for the walk - I could admit to being impressed. Third row behind the Yankee dugout. So close I could see the spot where Alex Rodriguez injects his steroids. The great thing? That statement's not even slanderous...
...values voters” of the last two or three presidential elections, in which “values” seemed a stand-in for an unexamined and potentially bigoted moral rubric—an ethical compass calibrated not by reason or argument but by a seat-of-the-pants, bottom-of-the-gut, irrational “feeling” about what is right. Or, in the completely opposite direction, the word “value” could also connote the equally unappealing hyper-rationality of modern economics, with its theories of value-added or real and nominal...
...greatest single benefit of this for us as a family. It means that we see each other every day. And that hasn't happened for most of the kids' lifetime, right, because it's not just this position. He was a state senator; had to run for that seat. The state senate is in Springfield; it's a five-hour drive away. Then it was the U.S. Senate. There was the campaign in between there. The U.S. Senate is in Washington, D.C. - well, I'm telling you the obvious - and on and on and on. It's been...