Sam Barry | Sam Barry
Feb.08.2010
I know what all you sports fans are thinking about: how long can the New Jersey Nets keep it up? With a 4 and 46 record the NBA’s losingest team is beginning to challenge some of the great awful teams of the past for the title of most inept professional sports team ever. The Nets are so bad that...
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Feb.04.2010
Lately I have been encountering a lot of cynicism and it is making me mad. Smart people I know—people who have benefited from living in the United States—educated people with opportunities and resources—are running down the world, their country, the media, schools, the government, their fellow...
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Feb.01.2010
San Francisco, February 1 — While America slept, complacent in our belief that we were safe, the enemy returned to our land.
At first we did not want to believe it was true. We saw the shadows in our windows, heard the flapping of wings, but unable to face the truth, we continued on in our happy-go...
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Jan.28.2010
First there was language. Than there was agriculture. Then there was toilet paper.
And now there is the iPad.
Introduced yesterday at Apple headquarters by Steve Jobs, Leonard Nimoy, and the Dalai Lama, the iPad presents humanity with a choice: do we stay in the forest, hanging from the limbs of...
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Jan.25.2010
No one remembers exactly how it started. My best guess is that my friend George, a diehard sports fan, spouted some inanity about his favorite team and I responded with a feisty “wanna bet?” The race was on.
The result is that for the last twenty years or so, George and I have bet on every...
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Jan.25.2010
We here at the Daily Sam have been advised by our Board of Directors—which consists of anyone who will listen to us for longer than two minutes—to post new editions of the Daily Sam blog on a regularly-scheduled basis. As a result we have decided that going forward the Daily Sam will be published...
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Jan.22.2010
I am weary of listening to people bicker. I am tired of being exposed to the infighting of the famous, infamous, and the powerful. I feel like I am being drenched in spittle daily as television and movie producers and stars and claw at each other. Family tragedies are served up as entertainment...
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Jan.19.2010
One spring night in 2002, I walked out on a New York stage without a clue that the evening would include a life-changing moment. Sure, it was exciting: the Rock Bottom Remainders, an all-author band I’d started on a whim ten years before, was about to play a sold-out anniversary show at Webster...
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Jan.18.2010
To be a football fan is to suffer from a mild form of insanity, and the United States is clearly nuts. I have lived many places, but nowhere did I learn more about the craziness of American football fandom than when I was the pastor of Florence Presbyterian Church in Omaha, Nebraska, a city where...
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Jan.13.2010
The other day at the work lunch table I learned, once again, that I am a complete moron when it comes to food. This wasn’t much of a revelation, as I can only cook three things: tacos, spaghetti, and tuna salad sandwiches. My idea of an interesting restaurant is one that serves one of these three...
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