Josh Benner

Category: Commentary

  • 10 years ago today, I broke my jaw

    As I sit and look out the windows to the light snow that has fallen over the past day, I think about how diametrically different this year’s Valentine’s Day is for me from where I was at this point a decade ago. In my 26 years of life, I’ve only broken one bone. It was…

  • Once Upon A Secret: the insightfully fascinating book by a JFK intern/mistress

    Late October. 1962.    America is in a panic as the U.S. and the Soviet Union appear to be close to the brink of nuclear war. The early morning hours of October 28 would prove to be the final hours leading up to the peaceful conclusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis. But in the days…

  • Josh Hamilton relapse

    Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton has had a very public battle with alcohol and drug abuse. Over the last couple of seasons, Hamilton has sobered up. The result has been the former number one overall draft pick becoming one of the best players in the game while leading the Rangers to back to back World…

  • Death of Paterno; why it seemed like fate

    There was always a sense of fatalism. Not that he would one day die, that’s an inevitably we all face. But for the serious fan of college football, I think that there was a thought that he was never really meant to live apart from the game. Even before the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke, I…

  • Pro choice paradox: why efforts to curb gender selective abortions are irrational

    Note: this post discusses what I see as a logical paradox in the current debate about abortion as a means of gender selection. Full disclosure: I am personally pro life. I’ve written before about the topic of gender selective abortion. In developing nations, the process of aborting a fetus (typically of a girl) based on…