I’ve resigned myself to some things I will never fully fathom: the electoral college; women; Pokemon GO (a videogame that requires you to go outside and walk? That’s the opposite purpose of itself. That’s like a treadmill-powered Twinkie dispenser.). But I’m having real trouble with this concept, which I guess is more a question: …
Enough. Enough with the attempts to define news. Enough with the mock outrage over a lack of objectivity. Enough with pretending that “social” media is somehow different from its “mainstream” sibling. It isn’t. Make no mistake: They are siblings, if not identical twins. That we in the ancient media of print and television ever …
As a lifelong reporter, my father lived in notepads. All journalists do. Dad, however, did some serious scribbling. You wouldn’t say he took copious notes because that would be a disservice to dad and the word. It doesn’t come close to dad’s style. He must have had thousands of notebooks. He kept every one. …
That Donald Trump pulled the U.S. from the Paris global warming accord was as inevitable as the rising sea. What is surprising is the rationale that punctuated the withdrawal — and that we in the press let it pass for logic. We would expect the right to applaud it. …
(photo by Michelle Brown) True story. I awoke with some trepidation on Inauguration Day. Perhaps I’d heard ‘bigly’ too often, or feared that Vladimir Putin would do the s(w)earing-in. Whatever the reason, I wondered if a nuclear winter would greet me that morning. But when I wobbled into the shower and looked out the window, I …
The election is over, if zombies ever die. Turns out, the atheists were right, though Darwin was mistaken. And the end may be nigh. But at least it will also be hilarious, as witnessed by these mock phone calls from the Donald to his new BFF, Barack. 1 On Presidential Medals Of Honor And …
To miss a train or business deal, Because our clocks are without keel Can cause a nation loss of gold E’en worse than all the misers hold. — 1942 letter to Time magazine urging a national daylight savings time One of the few undeniable benefits of living in the digital era is not having to …
My head is going to pop off like a dandelion’s if I hear one more fresh-faced newscaster wax philosophic on how Donald Trump represents a true break from the political rules of old. True, Donald sealed his fate with last week’s hot mic, but the scandal, however salacious, is hardly new. I know Twitter …
So rare, when sensation meets realization. How often do we hype up, only to be let down? Titanics sink. Hindenburgs blaze. Y2Ks fizzle. Super Bowls are rarely super. And you just know the new Star Wars is gonna suck. But somewhere, a pig is flying over its pasture. Somewhere, Satan is getting pelted with snowballs. …
Between Donald Trump and Orlando and Brexit, the world appears on the verge of hating itself to death. But you gotta admit; it’s been a helluva year for sports. Consider: Peyton Manning retires after winning Super Bowl 50, and gives one of the all-time great farewell speeches. Made Ronald Reagan’s ‘The Gipper” speech …
