I recently took an Uber to visit a dear friend for dinner. The driver had iHeart Radio on when I heard a promotion for the station. Real people behind the mic. Real people in the building. Real people bringing you iHeart Radio. “Guaranteed Human.” Then came a pop song that sounded Auto-Tuned, followed by a …
The Everyman Chronicles
I am no longer convinced the midterm elections will even take place. I am not convinced martial law won’t be declared. I am not convinced ICE won’t be dispatched to minority voting districts. I am not convinced every vote will be collected and counted without interference from the government in power. And I have reasons …
M. Night Shyamalan’s career is something akin to the stock market. After making his Hollywood splash with the Oscar-nominated chiller The Sixth Sense, he was hailed on the cover of Newsweek as the next Steven Spielberg. But since then, his career has seen as many peaks and valleys as The Dow Jones. In anticipation …
“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.” — Thomas Jefferson Always be heard.
The problem with a 24-hour news cycle is that no minute matters. Unless you look. And this interview is worth a minute. Maybe two. Because it’s around 1:50 into the video that she drops a matter-of-fact bombshell. Nothing CNN could have anticipated, or they would have paraded her identity politics front and center. And …
The NBA playoffs began this weekend, as did the requisite hype about gravity-resistant superstars and dynastic empires rising and falling, all of which are true. But the best story of the 2017-18 basketball stories has already been told. And it has nothing to do with the playoffs. If anything, it has more to do …
A speech I was supposed to give Friday for Mr. Button, my high school journalism instructor and personal hero. First off, an apology to Mr. Button and my Blue Devil brethren: Mr. Button, I could no more call you “Bob” than I could call my father “Billy.” So please excuse excuse the New York Times …
